NoGenlefBhind said:
the most annoying thing about questions like this are the answers that people give when you just know they didn't really think their answer through.
the problem is that it's an objective type question and most of the people that are anti-death penalty answer it in a like manner, they answer it objectively, from a distance, with no personal involvement beyond the hastily sketched ideals they offer as explanation.
people that are pro-death penalty, like myself, are more able to view the question in subjective terms and answer accordingly.
'what if this happened to my child... what would I want to do to the guilty party'
that's what drives me nuts about questions like this... because too many people let their ideals and lofty aspirations toward the 'meaning of life' interfere with their honesty.
ask any opponent of the death penalty what they would do if given the opportunity to go back and kill Adolph Hitler before the start of WWII.
Nearly all of them, except the fools, would say 'yes, I would kill him'
there goes their argument out the window right there. there's the hypocrisy lying just beneath their previous bullshit answer.
of course that's an extreme example.. but that's exactly how you get to the true nature of someone without all the pretense and hubris complicating what is a perfectly understandable concept:
Life is not a gift.. it is a consequence
Life is not a right... it is an outcome
We are no more 'alive' than the spider that gets stepped on, or the rabid dog that gets put down and within that true context, we have every right to rid ourselves of those whose sole purpose of existing is the grave harm of others.
Every single person, whether they're conscious of it or not, is for the death penalty.. those that would contradict that statement just haven't reached that level of understanding yet, their specific situations have not put that choice before them so, presently, they're still wrapped and tied by the ideals of what they 'think' as opposed to what they would 'do'.
Every single person would kill when necessary.. and that is exactly what the death penalty is.
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Only a fool would kill someone as important in history as Adolf Hitler. It'd seriously alter how the world is today, which is why I wouldn't kill him even if I got the chance.
Besides, if I go back in time to kill Hitler due to what he did during WW 2, before WW 2 happened, that would mean WW 2 never happened, which would mean I wouldn't have reason to go back in time to kill him, which... You get the idea, it's a paradox, so I wouldn't kill him!
