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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (81775)6/14/2000 8:44:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
You do not seem to understand. You do NOT pay to house criminals because you are compassionate. You pay for their care to keep THEM away from YOU. You could pay MORE to kill them (which in economic terms is silly) and then of course you run a risk of error that simply cannot be redressed.

If we were compassionate we wouldn't be putting people in cages where they are continually brutalized by things like ass rapings. Prison is not the compassionate retreat you seem to think it is. And as stated above prison isn't about compassion- it's about segregating the dangerous.

Why would you want to pay more to kill them? Why would you think victims deserve society to compensate them? In the grand scheme of things EVERYTHING is societies fault- but I see no real reason why (unless you compensate all injuries) society need pay for the works of criminals. Indeed the victims are getting something of a windfall, and that at the hands of a person violating the law. This would be a social policy nightmare.

edit- I think you think that the being against the death penalty is something you DO for criminals. For me it is something I am doing for myself. As a great advocate of personal freedom and the rights of man, and of the precious nature of life, I never could really fit the death penalty in very well with my other beliefs. I can fit in opposition much better. It is for ME that I oppose it- because I do not want to sanction murder in my country. Not by criminals and not by the State. It has nothing to do with compassion, really, except compassion for myself, and the integrity I need to feel in my beliefs.
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