hmm ... this is really complicated ... how to quote u quoting me? ...
meh ... anyway ...
I guess you can rename me, and make up terms that don't exist in an attempt to demonize me all you want. It proves you are a petulant debater (use the term loosely.)
i wasnt really renaming u, just referring to the whole death penalty camp and not just u specifically ... and whats wrong with calling it the "pro-death lobby"? ... dont get hung up over a few words ...
I'm sure you think you are being cute and using logic here. I really tried to find it. All I can find are lies and strawmen. Let me explain.
You think killing 2.3 white collar offenders, tax dodgers, would hold the same reasoning as killing a captial murderer? No wonder you guys have no clue what the issue is with Capital Punishment. You can't make sense of crimes. "It depends on the definition of IT your honor". sigh.
umm ... me no understand what is a stickman ...
anyway, its my understanding that unfortunate businessmen who find themselves behind bars only due to their greed and lust for money arent kept with the psychopathic murderers who dont deserve to live ...
If the person of the 2.3 murdered by a capital offender were capital offenders, I guess I'd still have issue with it because it usurped the powers of lady justice and may have removed the appeal that would have proven the person innocent.
oh, i get it now! ... and ur "lady justice", right? ... no? ... then why do u feel empowered to determine the life or death of another human being?
i do appreciate ur concern tho for those poor innocents who are unfairly misjudged first time around ... of course, justice could never fail on appeal ...
So to answer your question, it would only follow to my own argument...... if you were a petulant, problematic, non truth seeking, manipulator, and perpetuator of arguments.
ok, thats the second time u've used "petulant" so now i have to look it up ...
Again with the demonization. I mean if your argument is weak, nothing like saving face by implying the person you discuss with is a demonic horde of badness. You get sympathy votes that way. Like Obamma and closing guantanamo, (he kept it open when he got i office because he was shown he was an idiot to suggest it....)
lol ... u mean like the demonic horde of badness that needs to be executed in spite of the weak capital punishment argument? or the demonic horde of badness that needs to be invaded in spite of the weak weapons of mass destruction argument? ... quite a lucrative little invasion tho for the oil producers ... wasnt georgy b an oil guy? ... sorry, u diverged first ...
Can you show me anyone, anywhere that said death sentences are too low? I'm in TEXAS, no one here would say that. We use capital punishment more than most states combined.
LMAO!!! ... are u serious????!!?! ... ur all here clamouring for the death of this Norwegian guy who wont get a death sentence coz Norway is a civilised country that doesnt have one - unlike such states as China, Russia, Somalia or the US - and ur asking me to point out "anyone" who thinks more ppl should be sentenced to death???
The far left, queasy??? Isn't my term, I think queasy is far to generous. You guys would feed the world until they forgot how to feed themselves, you would build dependence on govt, you would feed cancer rather than excise from the organism, all in the name of "we are morally better!". There I returned your idiotic implications back in kind. See how stupid it looks?
wait ... when did i become "far left" ... im sure my profile just says "more left than right" ... ur really a man of extremes ... nothing is a little and everything is a lot with u, huh?
and it can never be stupid to be morally better ...
Only a true leftist wouldn't know the difference in capital murder and white collar crime. Your position is really, that tax evaders are as evil as murderers? That's the position yoU MUST take to say what you just said. Who would want justice to be usurped and an undeserving person die. I guess you guys on the "left" (out ofthe line for common sense.) have a tough time with assigning guilt or innocence. For you, everyone is a victim. It's probably all just a misunderstanding anyway. Every capital offender should be made sheriff of a county, and then we can watch how they enforce the law and learn to empathize with their thinking and inner child.....
we've covered this already, right? white collar criminals, death row inmates ... minimum security ... maximum security ... and never the twain shall meet ...
You are condoning the killing of non capital offenders. I guess you feel that isn't a worse evil.
i dont know how i let this slip in my first post ... ur admitting here that capital punishment is evil, right? only that allowing them to live to kill 2.3 white collar criminals is a "worse" evil ... well, ok then, if ur willing to acknowledge that capital punishment is evil and are happy to embrace it and accept it anyway, i guess theres little for me left to say except, obviously ur incompetent to determine the justice policies of a nation ...
It must be confusing for you. Your responses show your head screwed around so many directions you don't know up from down. No one has ever said criminals should be killed. That's a strawman lie, which is the only defense you have. :| That alone should tell you something. if you'd listen or not.....
me still too dumb to know what is strawman ...
but seems to me ur the one whose head is screwed around ... ur arguing for evil in the name of justice ... thats seriously screwed up ... dont u see that?
everyone wants a utopia, a heaven on earth ... but u dont get it by killing the ppl spoiling the party ... where to after we kill all the "bad guys"? ... handicaps? ... retards? ... blacks? ... gays? ... how many ppl dont fit ur ideal society, Hitler? and do u really think the ideal society has any place for ppl who harbour feelings of wanting to kill ppl in ANY circumstance? ... i understand u want to make the world a better place ... seriously, i do ... but ur thinking is the same as the problem ur trying to get rid of ...
ur thinking is based on anger and vengeance ... "u killed, so now u die, scum!" ... theres nothing noble, honourable or even "just" in that thinking ...
It's evil to put a known capital murderer in a position where he could kill 2.3 more people, outside of justice, that may not have been capital offenders anyway.
not evil, WORSE evil ... on the sliding scale ...
if you think otherwise, it explains why you can't see the reasoning to this conversation.
i will never see the reasoning in ur argument. "justice", like all things, is measured by its proximity to God and i will no more accept an idea of "justice" which is predicated on vengeance, hatred and other base human emotions than i will accept the idea of an angry, wrathful god who casts sinners into a lake of fire and extends forgiveness only on the blood sacrifice of chickens, virgins or only begotten sons ...
such thoughts are the works of savages and barbarians and unworthy of inclusion in the minds of even partially civilised men ... let alone to be attributed to the divine personage of God.
You should recuse yourself.
umm ... recuse has no validity here since im not being asked to leave due to bias or any conflict of interest ...
nevertheless, i'll "recuse" myself now ...