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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    OnTheEdge wrote:

    http://www.courant.com/community/cheshi ... 75785.stor
    "In a civilized society, people need to be responsible for their actions."

    State-sanctioned murder is not an act of a civilized society.
  • OnTheEdgeOnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    "Michaela was an 11-year-old little girl. She was tortured and killed in her own bedroom, surrounded by her stuffed animals."
  • OnTheEdgeOnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    Byrnzie wrote:
    OnTheEdge wrote:

    http://www.courant.com/community/cheshi ... 75785.stor
    "In a civilized society, people need to be responsible for their actions."

    State-sanctioned murder is not an act of a civilized society.


    "In a civilized society, people need to be responsible for their actions."
  • OnTheEdgeOnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    ummm...i could be wrong, but,

    i thought justice was served when the sentence has been carried out??


    True, very true. So sad that for years now we'll be feeding this piece of shit and letting him breathe another day. But at least he can sit around and wait for his own fate.
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    ummm...i could be wrong, but,

    i thought justice was served when the sentence has been carried out??


    True, very true. So sad that for years now we'll be feeding this piece of shit and letting him breathe another day. But at least he can sit around and wait for his own fate.
    who all did he hurt & take their life?
    mom and kids?
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited November 2010
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    "In a civilized society, people need to be responsible for their actions."

    Murder the murderer, right?

    Maybe the fact that the state condones murder has something to do with why murder is so widespread in your country?
    Post edited by Byrnzie on
  • OnTheEdgeOnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    Byrnzie wrote:
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    "In a civilized society, people need to be responsible for their actions."

    Murder the murderer, right?


    JUSTICE!!!!!
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    "In a civilized society, people need to be responsible for their actions."

    Murder the murderer, right?


    JUSTICE!!!!!

    Are you God?
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    theres an awful lot of venom in ths thread.

    i know you sll have your reasons for thinking the way you do about this topic, but personally i cant justify to myself the taking of the life of another. and therefore i project that out into my society. if someone i loved was murdered id want the killer dead. of course i would. id be so emotional and wrought with hysteria, anguish that i wouldnt be able to think straight. and so retribution would be foremost in my mind. but then id calm down, work through my grief and remember that an eye for an eye isnt something i can condone. it wont bring back my loved one and itd cause another family the same anguish i felt. who wants that kind of paying it forward??

    for all the talk about man not being an animal i hear too much baying for blood and i dont want to be anywhere near it. nor do i want such negativity around me and i dont want it around my children and grandchild.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    "In a civilized society, people need to be responsible for their actions."


    " ... the moral contradiction inherent in a policy which imitates the violence it claims to abhor and in fact premeditates it."
    - Albert Camus


    America isn't a civilized society. A civilized society doesn't commit murder in the name of justice.
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,308
    i am confused.

    if someone kills another person we call it "murder".

    if the state kills a person it is considered "justice".

    at what point does murder = justice?? and since a life is ended deliberately by direct means in both cases, how can one argue that the death penalty is justice instead of murder?

    you can't have a death penalty without committing a murder in the process of carrying out the sentence....
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • OnTheEdgeOnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    i am confused.

    if someone kills another person we call it "murder".

    if the state kills a person it is considered "justice".

    at what point does murder = justice?? and since a life is ended deliberately by direct means in both cases, how can one argue that the death penalty is justice instead of murder?

    you can't have a death penalty without committing a murder in the process of carrying out the sentence....



    Yes


































    you are confused :D
  • OnTheEdgeOnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    It's not that hard to understand. If someone kills an innocent human being(especially a child) for just the pleasure it gives them, it is called murder. By removing this person from society it makes it justice.
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    sickening
    i feel terrible
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    i am confused.

    if someone kills another person we call it "murder".

    if the state kills a person it is considered "justice".

    at what point does murder = justice?? and since a life is ended deliberately by direct means in both cases, how can one argue that the death penalty is justice instead of murder?

    you can't have a death penalty without committing a murder in the process of carrying out the sentence....

    youre confused because of the hypocrisy of it all. 8-)
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  • OnTheEdge wrote:
    "Michaela was an 11-year-old little girl. She was tortured and killed in her own bedroom, surrounded by her stuffed animals."

    This is what he should have said

    Michaela was an 11-year-old little girl. She was tortured and killed in her own bedroom, while her house was surrounded by gutless cowards from the Cheshire Police Dept.
  • OnTheEdgeOnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    edited November 2010
    chadwick wrote:
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    sickening
    i feel terrible
    Post edited by OnTheEdge on
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    i am confused.

    if someone kills another person we call it "murder".

    if the state kills a person it is considered "justice".

    at what point does murder = justice?? and since a life is ended deliberately by direct means in both cases, how can one argue that the death penalty is justice instead of murder?

    you can't have a death penalty without committing a murder in the process of carrying out the sentence....

    It's got nothing to do with justice. It comes down to the fact of living in a society which was founded on genocide, and that bases it's beliefs on a confused interpretation of a 2000 year old Middle Eastern religion whose vengeful God had no qualms about committing abitrary mass slaughter.

    This, coupled with a fearful population obsessed with violence, means that for many people the death penalty is not only perfectly acceptable, but is something to froth at the mouth over, and write poetry about.
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    "Michaela was an 11-year-old little girl. She was tortured and killed in her own bedroom, surrounded by her stuffed animals."

    This is what he should have said

    Michaela was an 11-year-old little girl. She was tortured and killed in her own bedroom, while her house was surrounded by gutless cowards from the Cheshire Police Dept.
    this is getting bad
    this story makes me sick

    can we skip it
    uncool like it hit me like a ton of bricks, uncool... that's how ill it makes a guy
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,308
    i am confused.

    if someone kills another person we call it "murder".

    if the state kills a person it is considered "justice".

    at what point does murder = justice?? and since a life is ended deliberately by direct means in both cases, how can one argue that the death penalty is justice instead of murder?

    you can't have a death penalty without committing a murder in the process of carrying out the sentence....

    youre confused because of the hypocrisy of it all. 8-)
    exactly....
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited November 2010
    yes
    that poor man
    i feel so bad for him
    he has a lot of strength inside him

    i in his shoes i envision myself blowing haynes head off in the courthouse
    Post edited by chadwick on
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    OnTheEdge wrote:
    "Michaela was an 11-year-old little girl. She was tortured and killed in her own bedroom, surrounded by her stuffed animals."

    And yet there are hundreds of Americans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who've massacred little girls in their bedrooms and these people are treated to a hero's welcome.

    And yet we in the West still wonder why we're confused?
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    chadwick wrote:
    i envision myself blowing haynes head off in the courthouse

    Do you ever find yourself wishing you'd been born in the Middle Ages instead?
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Byrnzie wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    i envision myself blowing haynes head off in the courthouse

    Do you ever find yourself wishing you'd been born in the Middle Ages instead?
    everyday why?

    how many times do we have to go over this mr. byrnzie?
    fuck......

    you make a guy tired
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    last saturday during a road trip down the coast, my companion said hed have no problem being an executioner. i dont even know what we were talking about at the time. anyways i let the comment slide and we continued on with the conversation. a short while later he said, you didnt comment on my executioner thing i repiled, well what do you want me to say?. he hesitated. then asked what if.. knowing what was coming(cause it inevitably does) i cut him off and said it wouldnt matter if a loved one was murdered. it wouldnt change my anti death penalty stance. i said its like pascals wager in a way. believing in God just in case. how would God feel knowing you were hedging your bets and that your belief in him extended only as far as when heaven was proven to exist. even as an atheist i doubt God would be kosher with such a lack of resolve. anyways my companion reiterated his not having a problem with meteing out capital punishment. i said nothing more but wondered when it came down to it could he really go through with it...and the conversation moved on to music.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • ajedigeckoajedigecko \m/deplorable af \m/ Posts: 2,431
    Byrnzie wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    i think thats nation wide

    That should reduce the population of the U.S by a few million then.
    correct........reduce the population swiftly and end the worthless things that prey upon children.
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    last saturday during a road trip down the coast, my companion said hed have no problem being an executioner. i dont even know what we were talking about at the time. anyways i let the comment slide and we continued on with the conversation. a short while later he said, you didnt comment on my executioner thing i repiled, well what do you want me to say?. he hesitated. then asked what if.. knowing what was coming(cause it inevitably does) i cut him off and said it wouldnt matter if a loved one was murdered. it wouldnt change my anti death penalty stance. i said its like pascals wager in a way. believing in God just in case. how would God feel knowing you were hedging your bets and that your belief in him extended only as far as when heaven was proven to exist. even as an atheist i doubt God would be kosher with such a lack of resolve. anyways my companion reiterated his not having a problem with meteing out capital punishment. i said nothing more but wondered when it came down to it could he really go through with it...and the conversation moved on to music.
    like a death dealer?
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • OnTheEdgeOnTheEdge Posts: 1,300
    Byrnzie wrote:
    OnTheEdge wrote:

    http://www.courant.com/community/cheshi ... 75785.stor
    "In a civilized society, people need to be responsible for their actions."

    State-sanctioned murder is not an act of a civilized society.


    These 2 men were released on parole. That is how your term of a civilized society turns out.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    chadwick wrote:
    last saturday during a road trip down the coast, my companion said hed have no problem being an executioner. i dont even know what we were talking about at the time. anyways i let the comment slide and we continued on with the conversation. a short while later he said, you didnt comment on my executioner thing i repiled, well what do you want me to say?. he hesitated. then asked what if.. knowing what was coming(cause it inevitably does) i cut him off and said it wouldnt matter if a loved one was murdered. it wouldnt change my anti death penalty stance. i said its like pascals wager in a way. believing in God just in case. how would God feel knowing you were hedging your bets and that your belief in him extended only as far as when heaven was proven to exist. even as an atheist i doubt God would be kosher with such a lack of resolve. anyways my companion reiterated his not having a problem with meteing out capital punishment. i said nothing more but wondered when it came down to it could he really go through with it...and the conversation moved on to music.
    like a death dealer?

    life is the only death dealer i acknowledge.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    ajedigecko wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    i think thats nation wide

    That should reduce the population of the U.S by a few million then.
    correct........reduce the population swiftly and end the worthless things that prey upon children.

    Who said anything about 'preying on children'? The age of consent is different from state to state, right? It's also different from country to country.

    Anyway, you propose killing everyone in California who has had sex with someone under the age of 18? And what percentage of the population of California would that be? 80%? 90%?
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