ok doser
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And my great great grandfather and many others' ancestors fought to set every one of them free.
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The Death Penalty should be applied equally to all ages
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What should be done regarding the OP? A NINE YEAR OLD RAPED A FIVE YEAR OLD.
Doing anything other than putting him to death would be to tolerate rape.
Being mentally impaired or incapable of understanding what they're doing should be an aggravating factor with such crimes, not a mitigating factor.
You appeal to science, yet seem to forget that science does not tell us "ought," only "is."
God says you shall not pity the criminal. Life shall be for life.
A criminal is one who has committed a crime.
Rape is a crime, one punishable by death, at least in a civilized society, and had been since Noah.
We ought to punish criminals appropriately. Just because you don't like the punishment doesn't mean it's wrong.
When we put criminals guilty of capital crimes to death, society is better off.
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
1781-1881
16% of that time period was entirely slave free.
For most or all of that time period, northern states were entirely slave free.
Arthur Brain
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I'm not 'appealing to science', I'm using it as the yardstick that any sane system has (and does) when it comes to apportioning culpability for a crime, your bizarre objections to that notwithstanding. You actually believe that an incapacity to understand one's actions should be an aggravating factor in ascertaining guilt for a crime?! So...a fully aware adult who deliberately and with malice aforethought commits first degree murder has done nothing worse than one who kills without fully realizing what they've done effectively?!!
There's a reason why the kind of lunacy you propose isn't accepted in both our respective countries and never will be. It fails on a scientific and just as importantly, a moral level.
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AGAIN, science tells us what is, not ought.
Science cannot tell you right and wrong. We're discussing what is right and wrong.
It's like using a tape-measure to know what color the sky is.
Yes. Have you noticed how many criminals use "mental illness" as a means of mitigating their punishments when otherwise their case would be open and shut?
That's not a coincidence.
Both have committed murder. Both are deserving death.
Man is not authorized, nor has the capability, to try to calculate the correct amount of punishment. God is and does.
I don't care what you think, Arthur.
Man is evil. God is just.
God said put the murderer, the rapist, the adulterer and the adulteress, to death.
Who are you to say we should do otherwise?