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Originally posted by txgrneyes
Sorry casper I disagree!!!!!!!!!
To hell with what is human for the idots that hurt little kids or rape people....
Why should they be treated with respect and their feeling takin into consideration...they didn't ask the people they hurt it they minded.
Let the punishment fit the crime!!!!!!!!!
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Thankyou, txgrneyes - it's a fair argument. However, I stand by my original claim.
Let the punishment fit the crime? This is my point - who decides what is a fitting punishment? The victims? Ordinary people? Politics?
No, they didn't ask the people they hurt if they minded. That is not the point - thieves don't ask for permission to steal, yet we don't murder them. Arsonists don't ask if we'd like our hedges burnt, but we don't murder them either. But because someone doesn't ask for permission to touch up a kid, we're supposed to not only murder them, but do it by stoning? How barbaric.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not supporting child abuse or sex abuse. But there is no way I can condone the taking of another person's life, except in some cases of Euthenasia.
Simply because someone does something abhorrent, doesn't give us the right to stoop to their level. Especially not when we cannot guarantee the accuracy of our courts. People are wrongly convicted all the time - and you're willing to murder someone even though evidence may turn up years later exonerrating them?? Are you certain your judgement is perfect? The jury is perfect? The judge is perfect?
And even if they are, we should stoop to the criminal level to exact "justice"?? Only the government can kill people, cos they're always right?
To paraphrase the great J.R.R. Tolkien,
"Many that live deserve death. And many that are dead deserve life. Can you give it to them? Do not be so quick to deal out death and judgement."
It is not up to us to decide who should live and who should die.
CasperTG