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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that.....
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To: CharleyMike who wrote (2568)9/15/1999 11:10:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 6418
 
Until recently I was complacently acceptant of the idea of capital punishment. But a very wise person explained to me recently that "it's not about them, it's about us". Effectively we make a poor moral bargain if we repay murder with murder. Is that who we want to be? For extreme criminals there is a simple, practical and imo morally cleaner way to deal with them - life without parole. The near-kicker is that a capital case is so expensive and politically twisted in its ten-plus years of courtroom life that life without parole exacts no economic penalty.
The real kicker is that the asshole politicians like to use the death penalty as a cheap, dramatic substitute for really actually caring about crime. Let's deny them this bit of hypocrisy. Fwiw
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