[Vision2020] [Vision2020) DEATH TO VERMIN!

[Paul Rumelhart]

> Until you are able to muster the courage to dispense with predatory vermin 
> such as Duncan, you will continue to be part of the problem.
>
> Frustrated by the lily-livered left,  -T

Like being stone-cold, barbaric, emotionless, revengeful killers is something to aspire to.  Me, I'll stick to trying to treat people humanely, *despite* what they might or might not deserve.

While I have no doubt about his guilt in this particular case, I'm also against the death penalty because of all the innocent people we keep finding we've put to death as a country based on DNA evidence. I haven't always thought this way, but every time I hear about another death penalty case where the wrong man or woman was convicted I sway towards the idea of life in prison without parole despite the cost.

Paul


P.S.  "Death To Vermin" wouldn't be a reference to Vernor Vinge's "A 
Fire Upon the Deep", would it?  Just curious because that's where I get 
my userid (godshatter).

Tony wrote:

>Actually whayman, killing sociopathic predators does indeed, in a very real 
>sense, bring someone back.  By acting as a deterrent to future aggression 
>and rendering the problem of recidivism moot, capital punishment would 
>preempt thousands of innocent deaths annually.
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>Until you are able to muster the courage to dispense with predatory vermin 
>such as Duncan, you will continue to be part of the problem.
>
>Frustrated by the lily-livered left,  -T
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>From: <whayman at adelphia.net>
>To: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
>Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 3:09 PM
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Duncan plea deal
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>>Hello all,
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>>I would agree with anyone that Duncan tests the limits much more than even 
>>more than Malvo in the DC area. What Duncan apparently did lies outside 
>>the human scope of sympathy. But even within this absolutely and 
>>disgustingly twisted psychopathic scenario, I still cannot advocate a 
>>penalty of death for anyone. Duncan included.
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>>Killing, as we all know, brings back no one. The argument of the death 
>>penalty as resolution and closure I find closer to vengeance than justice.
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>>Please don't take me wrong; I don't think rehab etc. is the issue in this 
>>case. I do hope that the rest of his life is spent anonymously and ignobly 
>>incarcerated.
>>
>>Warren Hayman
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