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Saddam executed; Your thoughts?
injest:
--- Quote from: wdj on December 30, 2006, 09:01:48 pm ---Is not!
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:P
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: wdj on December 30, 2006, 08:59:03 pm ---I think there's more to it than that though. We don't just do what the majority say. One of the responsibilities of government is to protect minorities against the majority.
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Don't know what to tell you. It's legal, a legally voted in government. I, too, howled when the Republicans were put back into power yet again last year. But what could I do? Dubya won by over a million votes.
Whose fault is it? Those million voters.
I can't live in the US, vote in a legal and - from all signs - as fair as possible election, then when someone I don't like is voted in, decide I no longer want to follow the rules. There are laws to protect the minorities, but as I pointed out to Jess earlier, to be exempt from following laws you don't like, legally you have to present a case to the state and prove that is it illegal or immoral.
Conscientious objection comes to mind.
David:
Why wasn't his execution televised via Pay Per View? Send the money raised to pay for the trial.
Why did they put a scarf around his neck to prevent rope burn? That is so stupid.
Sorry folks, but if you are a mass murderer or confessed killer, then why should my taxes be used to keep you in jail for the rest of your comfortable life? If you are not being rehabilitated then what is the point?
No, I don't think we should have the death penalty for lesser crimes. But for the inhumane? Why keep them around in a warm bed with 3 square meals a day?
Want to really punish them? Make them commute to work in rush hour traffic choking on smog, then work some horrible job for 8 hours at minimun wage then go home to a low rent apartment and stare at whats left of your paycheck after taxes are removed.
Wayne:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 30, 2006, 08:36:51 pm ---Per the Christian story, Jesus was executed anyway.
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Uck - yeah - AND Peter (crucified, which I long knew) AND Paul (beheaded, which I only recently found out about ... :-\). It does not pay to disagree with authority. At least in the short term, first 300 or 400 years.
injest:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 30, 2006, 09:07:43 pm ---Don't know what to tell you. It's legal, a legally voted in government. I, too, howled when the Republicans were put back into power yet again last year. But what could I do? Dubya won by over a million votes.
Whose fault is it? Those million voters.
I can't live in the US, vote in a legal and - from all signs - as fair as possible election, then when someone I don't like is voted in, decide I no longer want to follow the rules. There are laws to protect the minorities, but as I pointed out to Jess earlier, to be exempt from following laws you don't like, legally you have to present a case to the state and prove that is it illegal or immoral.
Conscientious objection comes to mind.
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morality and legality are decided by the majority so that would be pointless
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