If you Had the Chance would you Kill These People?

Yeah a lot of that was what I was trying to say too…sorta. Like how you said it doesn’t matter, people just keep getting born- it’s true. Sure I would feel differently if I knew someone who had been killed by Bundy or whomever, but still…it’s not gonna bring the person back to kill the murderer. Why bother, basically, if someone else is just going to eventually be probably worse than the serial killer you kill?

And it IS hard to kill someone. I don’t know this for a fact, I mean i never have killed anyone and I don’t ever plan to. It’s easy to say “i’m gonna shoot that guy” but actually pointing the gun and pulling the trigger- could you really do that?

Also- anybody see the movie Deathwish? This whole idea of doing away with “bad” people is a bit like that, i never saw the movie but I know of it. It’s really reflects this thread.

Um, serial killers are from the future here to snuff out would-be Hitler types. If we kill them before they kill the future killers…

Jokes aside, I saw on the History channel that Hitler was rejected from going to art school (on a panel vote of 4-5). It was after that he rose to power. Imagine being one of the guys who voted against his admission? Yikes.

Don’t take ANY decisions you make regarding the future of another person too lightly.

Wrath, think that’s bad?

Stalin was in the Seminary learning to be a PRIEST!

Go figure!

Yeah I remember learning about this in History class…and i also heard somewhere that Mrs. Hitler considered getting an abortion but for some resaon didn’t. Don’t know if that one’s true or not, but its along the same lines. There’s also this short story I read about him at birth.

It’s amazing. I wonder what decisions that we take lightly now will have a huge effect on the future?

And again, I say, what makes this different from what the killers did? Execute them if you will, but do this as a state action - as a matter of policy and exercising the duty of protection of the people. Torture? Why would you torture, apart from for gratification? State execution is supposed to be done from a necessity, not so we can all get our jollies. It seems to me to be an even more compelling use of the argument against capital punishment: torture and killing are very wrong, and to show you how wrong, we are going to torture and kill you.

If the prospect of death won’t dissuade a serial killer, why do you think the prospect of torture would?

You know, in the movies, you got the bad guy, and he’s REAL bad, and maybe he tortures (mentally or physically) and/or rapes before killing, sometimes flaunting his cunning and laughing, and you really REALLY hate this guy?

I get disappointed when all they do is die. Makes you want the bad guy to feel everything every one of his victims felt. Have Hitler, for instance, feel the death of every single soul that he had killed. It seems more just that way.

But I am neither judge nor jury, and have no right under any law, natural or otherwise.

But if I was so inclined to commit suicide, I’d do it Kamikaze-style and take OJ with me.