[Vision2020] [Vision2020) DEATH TO VERMIN!

[Tony]

Oh no Paul, my intention when advocating the summary execution of violent predators had nothing to do with revenge, but every thing to do with PROTECTING THEIR FUTURE VICTIMS FROM ATTACK.  Not all killing is wrong or inappropriate Paul; there is such a thing as justifiable and indeed, merciful killing.  To execute a killer is to SAVE his future victim's LIVES!

What a positive thing.  Won't you get on board the peace train?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Rumelhart 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 4:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Vision2020) DEATH TO VERMIN!


> 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.

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
----- Original Message ----- 
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


  Hello all,

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.

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.

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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