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To: TigerPaw who wrote (15216)6/21/2002 10:03:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21057
 
Facile and misleading. States commonly restore peace by waging war.



To: TigerPaw who wrote (15216)6/24/2002 9:51:24 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21057
 
The state is not trying to "uphold the sanctity of life", as if every life were sacrosanct. It is enforcing the prohibition on murder, by laying blame and administering a severe, but proportionate, punishment. It is saying that if one maliciously kills, one forfeits one's life, because one cannot be allowed to get away with it.........