Two wrongs don’t make a right was one of the first saying I ever learnt as a child…If children can understand the concept . why cart grown adults?..It makes you wonder what kind of people are in charge of the USA’s government…Capital punishment is lowering you to the murders and rapists… …I’m lucky enough to live in a Country where capital punishment was banned over 30 years ago…the USA thinks that it is advanced…but it still takes part in a hypocritical ritual which has been thrown out in most western countries…you can land a man on the moon…but you keep capital punishment…I think you should question your priorities…How about concentrating on the 100’s of innocent people dying from gun related crimes that could be prevented with a slight change in the laws?
Or would that be too much to ask???
We keep capital punishment around mostly because it helps you feel so much better about your own country.
Reality - a little hint. You may get more reasoned and respectful answers to your posts if you format them in a style that’s easier to read. All the run-on sentences make what you write difficult to read. Try full sentences with periods/full stops at the end and paragraphs.
You may also want to have a little read around the boards to familiarise yourself - a lot of what you said has been discussed over and over here before.
Yours,
Fran
I think if you do a search, you’ll find many discussions on these two topics: gun control and capital punishment. That may give you some idea of why things are done here the way they are. You’ll also find that the whole “man on the moon” comparison has been bunked and debunked all over the place. It bears no relation to our legal system, and therefore, the comparison is moot.
-L
Reality:
Yeah, but in all fairness, we’ve never executed a man on the moon.
Well…
We did give the world McDonalds and Coca-Cola…
I guess we can’t be all that bad.
BTW…
You don’t live in one of those countries we saved TWICE last century, do you?
It would really help to rail on you if we knew which country to make fun of.
Are you absolutely certain we should be bragging about giving the world McHaggis et al?
Reality is from Australia, and seems to have a general problem with punctuation. Her home page bears an astonishing resemblance to the O.P. (punctuation-wise, at least.)
Capital punishment could be viewed as a form of collective self defense. A person is convicted of murder and deemed to dangerous for society. He (or she) is given opportunity and time to appeal the court’s decision before execution. This time period can be over a decade in many cases.
I much prefer that way to dumping proven killers back on the street and hoping that a few years spent in the company of other killers and criminals will have improved their character.
By the way, Reality. Your posting has more the tone of a rant. Perhaps you should have put it down in the Pit.
Perhaps Reality is a scholar of the works of Charles Dickens, and she phrased her post as if it were voiced by Mr. Alfred Jingle, the strolling actor and adventurer of *The Pickwick Papers.
Capitol punishment might not be the deturant that it once was, but it does keep repeat offenders down. Haven’t heard much about Ted Bundy latley, he?
Thanks for sharing, Reality. You get any more Great Thoughts, you just let us know, m’kay?
Really? As a child, I always learned “An eye for an eye” and “You made your bed, now sleep in it.”
Because the world isn’t simplified to the level of a child’s intelligence.
Strange. I know exactly what kind of people are in charge of the USA’s government: The USA’s population.
How so? Murderers and rapists prey on innocent people. Capital punishment delivers justice to those murderers and rapists. Surely you can see the difference between action and reaction (if a child can understand that concept, why can’t you?)
You also live in a country that has a higher crime rate than America.
And the rest of the world agrees with us.
How is punishment of the guilty a hypocritical ritual?
There’s probably a relationship between those two.
And you’d better believe we do, bucko. But we don’t need ellipsis-happy blokes to question our priorities for us, 'k?
Methinks you spend too much time pressing the period key on your keyboard and not enough time educating yourself. Rates of gun deaths have been steadily going down for the past decade. Methinks we HAVE been concentrating on the “100’s” (actually, it’s tens of thousands) of innocent people dying from gun-related crimes.
About as much as the US asking Australians to focus on the skyrocketing levels of crime they have rather than force innocent people to render themselves defenseless. It’s all about give-and-take, y’know?
Ooooootch.
Ooooooooooooootch.
Resolved: Any newbie who gives SPOOFE an opportunity to use “methinks” more than once in his response-post gets run down with a steamroller and mooshed flat, like in the Warner Bros. cartoons.
Oh, come off it, people.
You know you’re only bandwagon-jumping here because, like me, you’re pissed that such a cool handle was wasted on this lame rant.
Admit it. Tell truth now!
All I want to know is why all the people in her pictures are tilting their heads. Is there a problem with gravity in Australia that we know nothing about, or is that an occupational crick due to craning their necks around the globe trying to see what those damn 'mericans are up to now?
Daddy Daddy! Teacher says, every time an ellipses is abused, an angel gets her eyes burned out!
That’s right! THAT’S RIGHT!!!
jarbaby
I’m rather curious what she thinks this “slight change” is.
“Hey, how about we make it illegal to kill hundreds of people during a gun related crime?”
“Damn! Why didn’t I think of that!”
I’m rather curious what she thinks this “slight change” is.
“Hey, how about we make it illegal to kill hundreds of people during a gun related crime?”
“Damn! Why didn’t I think of that!”
While I also am opposed to the death penalty, I really don’t think this OP makes our side look good.
If instead of ellipses you use dashes, you might have come off as a James Joyce wannabe, Reality.