Comments on: “Lethal Bigotry”

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Craig Adams — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:17:26 +0000

While I actually disagree with the taking of another human life under any circumstances. Even those who have take others lives. I find there to be more justification(if such a thing is possible) in taking the life of someone who is a danger to another than in cases such as the Schiavo case where there was no justification. It was death by torture in that case. I think we should be extremely careful when it comes to the taking of anothers life.

Craig Adams
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totaltransformation — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:03:09 +0000

Thanks for the post. It gave me something to think about.

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tieki rae — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:34:25 +0000

I’m not exactly sure I follow what you are saying. Are you arguing that the pro-euthanasia crowd is hypocritical for being against the death penalty? I would definitely agree with that point.

However, I would strongly disagree with the justification of capital punishment as a means of removing individuals who are considered incapable of functioning within society. First of all, whether or not someone is capable of functioning within society is too relative and not something I feel the government should be deciding. The government should concern itself with punishing individuals who cannot follow the laws and rules of society and removing the threat that those individuals may pose to others, thus justifying the death penalty (in my opinion).

Furthermore, I firmly believe that killing another human being is never compassionate. I advocate the death penalty because it is exactly the opposite of compassion - as mean as that may sound.

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avoiceofreason — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:35:48 +0000

This isn’t an attack, but would those who posted that comment about “killing people as an act of compassion” be against capital punishment?

Capital punishment has more than one philosophical basis, other than being paying the just penalty, but also has a probative basis towards the betterment of society being achieved by removing those who are so obviously incapable of functioning within that society.

There are certain conditions where killing a person may be an ethical necessity, or at least a valid hypothesis can be made towards that end. This in fact would be the “certain conditions” where killing is compassionate.