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Politics : Fahrenheit 9/11: Michael Moore's Masterpiece
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To: redfish who wrote (247)6/24/2004 12:55:56 AM
From: Rock_nj  Read Replies (1) of 2772
 
I think the thing that turned me against the death penalty was one simple fact of life: the state should be trying to save peoples lives, not end them. Our society, as an organizing principal tries to perserve human life, not end it. That's why we have all these safety laws and people who devote their lives to saving others (cops, fireman, doctors, etc.) Why throw all those efforts away by killing another human being, no matter what the reason is? Not to mention the fact that our justice system is prone to all the human frailities, and there have been more than 100 people released from death row since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. I don't want to bring the whole abortion issue into it, because that's a debate about when life actually begins. But, once people are alive and breathing in this world, the state should be on the side of perserving life, not destroying it, in my opinion.
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