Bob,
Are you so pro-life that you oppose all capital punishment? If not you are a hypocrite and liar. On earth, death in which all ends is justified by life itself -- we are just debating the duration of the interval between. Death is often justified by the injury that continued life will probably cause. I think that unibombers, Dahmers, OJ's, and other evil people may well be killed as prophylatic measures if not economic. Soon, too soon for you, I'm sure, the shrinks will be able to predict with confidence that this man or woman, this youth, this child, this baby, this fetus, because of its inherited traits in its genes, because of chance deprivations and environmental stress, is a sociopath and will kill or rape multiple times. The law will be forced to punish those whose makeup (born violent pedophiles, murderers or rapists) makes them villains. Should it wait until it actually kills, or carries out its predicted task of killing innocents? We'll argue about the validity and reliability of the predictive method, of course. You, friend proclaimed of victims, will not be satisfied -- no preventive deaths for you. I, setting scientific tolerance limits from psychometry, will be willing to preemptively kill one who has only a 5% chance of being innocent, in order to save the 19 kids who (with 95% confidence would have been killed had the sociopath lived free. Hope the sosh is from your family and the saved kids are from mine! |
