The state in their function as duly appointed representatives of the people.
Either they must be alive, or they must be dead. Which state is preferable?
As many of their citizenry as that deserved to die for their crimes.
And when it’s YOU that gets strapped onto that deathbed, either by accident or by prosecutorial design? Do you calmly accept that because the court decided that you murdered someone, then it must be true? Do you put that much trust in the infallibility of the government?
I get that you find his behaviour (as reported by witnesses, I gather) odd, possibly even unseemly, but how does it prove he’s a killer who should be killed?
To whom did he allegedly tell the cologne story?
I’m not personally keen with replacing “beyond a reasonable doubt” with “he’s acting guilty.”
I’d fight it to the extent of my ability to do so, and I don’t care to pretend that in my final moments I’d be anything other than a pathetic crying animal.
And did they?
The purpose of the justice system is not to decide who lives and who dies. Perhaps it was thousands of years ago, but those were profoundly unjust societies.
And I don’t believe a murderer’s death delivers any more justice than a murderer in prison for life.
Alive, and in prison for life.
And I thought Smapti acknowledged his own irrationality on this subject and promised not to make these arguments anymore.
Bricker and Dr. Deth got me hopeful for an interesting thread, but this same argument with an extremely fringe viewpoint is not interesting. Please, Smapti, if you’re going to argue, come up with something new.
Hmmm…perhaps white people have a greater sense of justice? A lower tolerance for murder? A greater value for innocent lives?
Says…??
White people?
Nonsense.
I don’t know your posting history. Please tell me this is supposed to be ironic.
hahahahahahaha
He’s also an admitted Holocaust denier, so this kind of thing is probably par for the course.
Personally, I think these “gotcha” games add interest and even a bit of value to threads.
Because they wouldn’t work at all if the targets would respond respectfully with requests for cites. They only work when - as was the case here - the response is to deny outright that the assertion was true and accuse the poster of making it up. Which shows something, I think.
People who are grieving act very strangely. Nothing he did was in any way suspicious.
And he did have burns and was prevented from going back in at least once.
His only crime here was not thinking clearly and logically during a disastrous tragedy.
Personally, I think these “gotcha” games add interest and even a bit of value to threads.
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And more than a bit of entertainment as well. “How DARE you react to my angry demands for a cite with a cite!!!” is a richly humorous attitude to strike, at least from where I sit.
Regards,
Shodan