Jewrean said:
JediMB said:
Jewrean said:
JediMB said:
Jewrean said:
...And the whole world goes blind. From an endless chain of justified reprisals.
"An eye for an eye" being a really bad principle isn't exactly news at this point. Supposedly some great religious figure realized that nearly 2000 years ago.
No need to go on a retarded moral crusade about it. It's quite simple really. If someone is a baby-mutilating child rapist serial mass murderer then you execute them. Simple. There is simply no way they will be rehabilitated. If there is no chance of rehabilitation then that means there is seriously wrong with them psychologically. So what do we humans do? We spend thousands, no, millions of tax payers dollars so these psychopaths can stay alive and watch cable TV in prison.
OBVIOUSLY not all prisoners are like this, but many deserve death.
Luckily we're not talking about a baby-mutilating child rapist serial mass murderer here.
Not to mention that the problem with capital punishment is that an execution cannot be undone if it turns out later that the sentenced was in reality innocent. That's more common than one would like to think.
But hypothetically let's say we are talking about this baby-murderer for a second. Are you saying that the death sentence should be abolished world-wide regardless of the crime and that this man remains in prison (possibly with a chance of being freed)?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29552692/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=42
"The costs come in basically three ways. First, the actual trial is more expensive. It is more expensive because of a lot of factors. One is that the defense gets at least two attorneys and state laws have guidelines on how much experience these attorneys must have - more experienced attorney's get paid more. Another factor for trials are the security - death penalty cases get more security, and another factor is the length of the trial - death penalty cases tend to be longer. Second, the appeals process. People sentenced to death get a huge number of appeals. Each of those appeals require more attorneys - the experienced attorneys. Security remains a factor and that costs a lot to bring death row inmates to Court and ensure they don't escape. Finally, death row is a much more secure setting than general prisons. The inmates are housed individually, costing more and they are usually staffed at higher levels.
So, in other words, the trial costs more, the appeals cost more, and it costs more to house them.
Add to it the fact that most death row inmates wait 9-12 years to be executed, you end up spending lots more to house them."
^-someone who worked 10 years corrections / probation experience ... 2 years working on death row in AZ -- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090307224849AA5J1he
http://www.fnsa.org/v1n1/dieter1.html
http://law.jrank.org/pages/5002/Capital-Punishment-COSTS-CAPITAL-PUNISHMENT.html
Look around; it's actually more expensive to use capital punishment than it is to keep someone in prison for life. It is not for -you- to decide who lives or who dies. That is not your place, and quite frankly I don't believe even the government has that place. There certainly is no need to go on a very random hyperbole-filled tangent just to argue for 'an eye for an eye.' As most people can tell you "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
OT: Sad to see that the gaming industry loses someone and sad to see that there's yet another loss of human life caused by an accident. I wonder more about the circumstances and really hope that the person who did this can take responsibility as they should have in the first place.
My condolences to the family and friends.