Did you really just complain that I hurt the feelings of a post?
Madanthonywayne said:
They are alternative sentences for the crime of murder. Each with a long history of being imposed for the crime of murder. Each is legal in the US.
Nice dodge. Seems to me if life and death are the same, there's no reason to be prosecuting "murder" in the first place. What does it matter if it's all the same?
If you ever wonder why people think so little of you
Your opinion of me hasn't any credibility. I mean, really, man. Maybe you're some awesome person in real life, but the part you play here is so fundamentally dishonest. Like the time you were screaming about academic equality while pushing a supremacist agenda.
Such as "ignorant savagery".
Oh, did I hurt the feelings of a
post?
Seriously ... the poor f@ckin'
post!
It even made my son laugh when he read it.
And why not? Like father, like son.
So what? Sometimes that's the only kind of justice available. As you've said, we can't bring the victims back. All we can do is make the criminal pay the blood debt with his own blood.
So let's think about
debt for a minute. If you take a loan to finance your car, or maybe a house, why would you pay the money back to, say,
me?
Just as dead people don't pay, neither do they collect debts. If I say, lost a bet we had on the Super Bowl, and you died—say, keeled over of a stroke—before I got back from the bank with the cash, why should Norsefire, or Sandy, or anyone else get the payoff?
What's the difference between taxation and theft? Or between being forced to pay a fine to avoid losing your license and extortion? Or between incarceration and kidnapping?
Consent of the governed to accept the coercive force of government.
If you can't see the difference between execution and murder, you shouldn't see a difference between any of those others either.
Well, since you demand that life and death are the same thing, why not?
I, on the other hand, assert that life and death aren't the same. When you're paying taxes, or a speeding ticket, or being arrested for driving under the influence, you're
alive.
When you're dead ...? Well, you're
dead.
But since it's all the same to you ....