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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty!

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To: louisebaltimore who wrote (442)1/20/2003 2:19:04 PM
From: Fangorn  Read Replies (1) of 828
 
louise,

I said "If you ban the DP or otherwise hobble it's use those lives will not be saved. You are
sacrificing innocents to avoid killing the guilty. This is a fact."

You said "No, you can just keep the guilty in prison and accomplish the same thing."

Lots of murders occur in prison which by itself destroys your point. In addition, people escape from prison.

re >That analogy just doesn't fit.<

None of the three were analogies, nor were they meant to be.
They were merely examples of putting human lives on the scale and as such proved my point that we put human lives on the scale every day. I was responding to this statement.

You said "But if we execute the killer, one life will
DEFINITELY be lost. I don't think you can put lives on a scale. "

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I am forced to take "I don't think" a little more seriously than I would like given the lack of thought exhibited by your post.
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