appolose on 06 March 2010
| MontanaHatchet said: I'd love it the government had the ability to murder me. We would be one step closer to a dictatorship, and frankly, that's my kind of thing. By the way, I'm being sarcastic. We constantly argue about government power, and what things government should be able to do. Why give them the power to murder citizens, regardless of their crime? And talk to people in life imprisonment. People who have to live in repetitive boredom for decades, who often suffer with their guilt for their remaining days, and grow old knowing that they wasted their entire life. Killing them is going easy on them. Also, to quote something that's quoted a lot: "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Gandhi Killing someone because they're a murderer makes about as much sense as elephant diapers. |
But how does putting a kidnapper in jail make any more sense? The kidnapper held the victim against his will, as would prison hold him against his. For that matter, such a situation would arise for any punishment for any crime, as one could reduce both crime and punishment to acts of people placing other people in undesired situations. The key difference, I say, is that, in the case of the criminal, they deserve their punishment, whereas their victim did not. Hence, hypocrisy is avoided.
Okami
To lavish praise upon this title, the assumption of a common plateau between player and game must be made. I won't open my unworthy mouth.
