[Vision2020] Death to Vermin!

[Ralph Nielsen]

>>
>> Andreas, you ask that I support my contention that executing a man  
>> prevents
>> him from killing others in the future.  If I may:  When a man is  
>> executed,
>> his heart stops beating, making predatory behavior difficult to   
>> engage in.
>> Further, his other organ systems stop functioning as well at the   
>> point of
>> execution, thus causing decomposition.  A moldering corpse,  
>> Andreas,  is a
>> threat to no one.
>>
>> Hope this helps with your confusion,    -Tony
>>
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>>
>> I presume Tony knows that hundreds of innocent people have been  
>> put to death by government killing. I suppose we can assume that  
>> if Tony were wrongly convicted of murder that he would gladly lay  
>> down his life for the satisfaction of other lovers of capital  
>> punishment.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
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>> Ralph, nice try but your requirement would eliminate the option of  
>> civilization entirely.  Any system of justice is going to include  
>> mistakes as it is administered by fallible human beings.  There is  
>> unfortunately no getting around that reality. That a system is  
>> imperfect in no way argues for its elimination.  Perhaps you would  
>> prefer anarchy to civilization?
>>
>> -T
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Nice dodging, Tony, but no cigar. Civilized states and countries do  
not have capital punishment. And they usually have much lower murder  
rates than those that do. The "option of civilization" is to abolish  
capital punishment, not to inflict it on the innocent.

When later evidence sometimes proves a convicted "murderer" to be  
innocent, we can set the poor man free and compensate him for his  
undeserved suffering only if we do not kill him first. Your attitude  
makes me wonder whether people like you are really "civilized".

And, Tony, you didn't answer my question. Would you gladly lay down  
your life in the name of "deterrence" for the satisfaction of other  
lovers of capital punishment? If you were wrongly found guilty of a  
despicable murder and labeled "vermin."

Ralph