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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Not to start a debate in the middle of this thread (and if you feel it deserves its own thread then feel free to start one), but how does the death penalty protect the lives of the innocent? The people who have been murdered are already dead; the only thing the death penalty does is punish those who killed them. There have been studies that show that places with and without the death penalty have comparable murder rates, and if that's the case then the death penalty doesn't protect the lives of the innocent by deterring murder either.
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here's the way i perceive the death penalty: yes, it is a punishment for those who have killed and given up their basic human right to life. when you take the life of an innocent human being, IMHO, you have lost your right to be alive. that's also why i am so pro-life b/c i believe the life of an innocent is so important. but this is just what
I believe, and am pretty sure it follows repub thoughts. preserve life....innocent life...i know there are flaws in every system (repubs have issues within the accuracy, etc of the death penalty, and dems have issues within the welfare system, for example), but i would much rather pay tax money on someone who
deserves to die's execution than pay the prison's cable bill.
i also think that those who are anti-death penalty need to put themselves in a victim's family's shoes. plus you also have to look at protecting other citizens by keeping someone from killing again. take a look at the 11yr old girl from sarasota who's body was just found. how many times had that guy been in and out of jail? it doesn't hurt my feelings for some murderer to get what he deserves, but it does waste my tax dollars to keep a killer in prison.
--now that that's been said, let's
please not turn this into a death penalty thread...i was merely responding to s&s's statements. i'm sure there are plenty of death penalty threads out there, i just don't wanna take the time to look them up.
as far as your post dionysus, "even on the playing field"? we all need to be equal? yikes. that's where we differ a LOT, i guess. lol
some ppl just deserve to be where they are, whether that's at the top, or at the bottom. ppl should def be given
opportunities, just not
hand-outs. that kind of utopia won't ever exist as ppl don't all have the same work ethic. correct me, fellow repubs, if i am wrong in joining that thought with repub ideals.
hope no one took me as being nasty....just trying to explain the thought processes just as i want the democrats to express
their party's ideals. i'm sure someone else can be more eloquent than i am about stating all this, but there it is. try not to flame me to death b/c i wasn't trying to flame anyone one here.
nuthin but love for gc dems!