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Didn't any boy cry? This girl certainly did...
Scott6373:
To answer the query of this thread. Boys do cry. Trust me.
Lumière:
Scott - Your story broke my heart .. So sorry that something like that happened to you. :(
When I was 17, right before I left home, burglars broke into our home and one of them put a gun to my head, and repeatedly said he was going to rape and shoot me and whatever else. I figured I was dead. Must've been a miracle of God he didn't actually rape me or use the gun .. Talk about trauma after that .. :-\
On the issue of capital punishment, I don't think anything is accomplished by killing the killer, since it does not undo the act ..although the victim(s) might be vindicated. I dont know .. it is a gray issue .. I'll have to think some more about it, I guess.
serious crayons:
Oh, Scott, it makes me so sad to hear about that experience.
The hypothetical situation you present is tough. Even if this technically qualifies as "unnecessary" violence, I can't help thinking of it differently from a moral perspective. After all, if you'd killed them earlier, it would have been perfectly legitimate self-defense. I would think any reasonable jury would let you off with a light sentence, at worst.
But exacting revenge on someone immediately after being brutally assaulted by that person is way different from the government doing the avenging. In other words, I'd give you permission to kill them long before I'd give the state of Texas permission to kill them, however much they deserved it.
Jeff Wrangler:
Oh, Scott. ... :o :'(
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: opinionista on March 08, 2007, 03:54:15 pm ---I agree with Jeff here. Killing people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong, is not the answer. It doesn't even make sense. Of course, I don't know if I'm going to feel different about it if I or somebody I love is raped, or killed, but right now I don't see the logic in it. Capital punishment exist since forever and to this date it hasn't stopped people from killing people.
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Howdy y'all. Yep, I'm from Texas and support capital punishment as some of you already know from other threads. I don't see it as 'killing people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong', I don't look at it as 'what good will it do Brandon/Teena?', I look at it as taking a very dangerous conscienceless person out of society where he will never be able to do that again to anyone. That's what's behind my idea of capital punishment. A very dangerous person has been taken permanently out of society.
You can't be sure he won't get out of prison in the future accidentally. Mistakes happen. In Texas, Kenneth McDuff - a fucking animal who deserved to die - through a series of serendipitous events in the Texas prison system got released when he had previously been sentenced to die for earlier just horrible heinous crimes - go here if you want to read about them
http://www.geocities.com/verbal_plainfield/i-p/mcduff.html
Yep, he got out and went on another killing spree.
Life in prison means nothing in Texas. They are eligible for the most part for parole at some time.
Capital punishment solves this problem.
In jail? Hmmm, yeah that guy may be treated badly or he may be respected for taking out a 'bitch'. That's what they do in prison don't they? Cold blooded murderers have a degree of respect in prison. He'll probably be among more people who think just like him.
Prison will solve nothing for him, will not change his mind, his attitude or give him a conscience.
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