Dawkinsrocks
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What a motley crew. These are the moral bedfellows of the US with its barbaric practice of executing its own citizens many of who are innocent of any crime
Nuff said
What a motley crew. These are the moral bedfellows of the US with its barbaric practice of executing its own citizens many of who are innocent of any crime
- Cuba†
Nuff said
Not if you are a brainwashed uninformed liberal!!!Can you please tell us of the recent executions in the US, how many were innocent?
It is one thing to condemn the death penalty on moral grounds, it is entirely another thing to claim innocents have been executed.
You are correct Dawky .... my comment is not a rebuttal .... it is a mockery at your ignorance and trollish comments!And most of those countries are barbaric backward rogue states
And they all have lots of murders despite their brutal treatment of prisoners
The US is in good company.
Mad, religious, right wing human rights violators
Oh and Texas Tea... your comment is not a rebuttal. It just shows how bereft you are of a real response
And how you are too weak to accept this obvious truth that the death penalty is barbaric and practised only by medieval countries in the main
And most of those countries are barbaric backward rogue states
And they all have lots of murders despite their brutal treatment of prisoners
The US is in good company.
Mad, religious, right wing human rights violators
Oh and Texas Tea... your comment is not a rebuttal. It just shows how bereft you are of a real response
And how you are too weak to accept this obvious truth that the death penalty is barbaric and practised only by medieval countries in the main
Dear Dr ....Are the rights to life, liberty, and property inalienable so that it is clearly beyond the legitimate power of government to deprive a man to his life? Or do you merely object because the death is barbaric? Does that mean that an execution by blowing (see wiki) is worse than execution by lethal injection? Can we devise an execution that is so civilized that it ceases to be barbaric and then would it be ok?
Texas tea strikes again with a devastating put down as he genuflects to the ludicrous notion that life is so precious that if you take it the state will kill you
He goes on to demonstrate his superstrong grasp on reality by suggesting that innocent people don't get executed
But then he is from Texas, the state murder capital of the western world
And he does support gun ownership as men women and children are mowed down by them in their thousands every year
And he's a big fan of the US bombing hundreds of thousands of civilians in warfare against countries that were not attacking the US
Yes, Texas Tea is a true and inspirational adherent to the doctrine of sanctity of life who argues his case well
I did respond to your point in my response to Texas tea
I do think life is precious
And as I said, the notion that life is so precious that if you take it the state will kill you is utterly ridiculous
The death penalty is barbaric.
It is not an effective deterrent
And it ensures that innocent people will be murdered by the state
And as you can see from the list of countries that still practice it it is kargely those that are backward, run by dictators and or theocracies
Of course and I take your point but sometimes your liberty is a big threat to other people's liberty and you have to make a call on which is the less evil - allowing your liberty or theirs
This hopefully provides an opportunity for you to improve your behaviour and it allows mistakes to be rectified
But of course rehabilitation is not really a part of US penal policy
It is all about hard time
That too is a bit of an overstatement.Which just brutalises further already brutalised people
Debateable. But since you agree that the state has the authority to make the call on who loses their precious liberty then it must make the call about why it will do that. Inescapable.And it obviously doesn't work as a deterrent
It is a function of a culture of crime in our urban areas.The US has the highest prison population and recidivism rates in the western world
A weird overstatement based on some propaganda someone has no doubt been feeding you.But it does pander to the right who are hate filled vengeance seekers