Is it really effective to KILL people for killing people?

[Garden Knowm]

Those guys killed.. so we are going to kill to end the killing?

I am struggling with this... is this insane??

please
help..

iloveyou

Garden Knowm Reviewed by Garden Knowm on 10-15-2006. Is it really effective to KILL people for killing people? Those guys killed.. so we are going to kill to end the killing? I am struggling with this... is this insane?? please help.. iloveyou Rating: 5

[Zohar]

No, but it's a very complicated issue. To some people, the death penalty gives them closure (but not everyone). To have their son/daughter's killer given the same fate can feel justifying to some people. Also, some people view it as a way to deter would be criminals, perhaps some people would be less likely to kill when they are facing death?

It's a bit more complicated then that, but I think you get what I'm trying to say.

[Garden Knowm]

No I don't get it...?

I don;t get it .. at all... not even one tiny bit... killing people.... WTF??

iloveyou

[LittLeWinG]

No it is not. That's why we dont have the death penalty here, we just let them rot in prison cells.

[Inferius]

It's not. It is no mans right to take another mans life.
But how is war any different? We're killing each other over IDEAS.
I say we drop therapist-bombs. Big crates full of em'. And some happy pills.
Get it all out in the open. Get the love flowing' again. It might even sink into the ground and ressurect John Lennon.

[mrdevious]

This is an issue that I've never been able to pick a clear side with. A few things I could say however....

The death penalty isn't really a deterrent, as most law experts and sociologists agree. When somebody makes the decision to murder another person, they're already mentally at the point of no return. This mind-state is one where killing the person has exceeded all else in importance, and whether they face death penalty or life in prison, they don't want to see one any more than the other. But killing this person if obviously important enough that they'd risk one of those punishments, and their desire to carry through with it has already long exceeded their desire to stay out of prison or the gas chamber.

On the claim that the death penalty is hypocritical, I don't really agree. The argument goes that you're telling people that killing is wrong, then turn around and kill somebody. But the laws on murder aren't so clear-cut as "murder is wrong". Rather, under law murder is wrong because it is not state-sanctioned, not the result of a jury unanimously agreeing to it, and imposed on a person who is innocent and has done nothing to deserve the punishment.

[chisme]

it is, im not really gonna get into it ,


you know what i would allow if i was top dog in the goverment?

say family A, and sum guy killes the dad of the family..................


what id do is tie that person to a chair handcus and everything......and let the family members do what they want with him for 1 hour........

[MastaChronic]

^pretty good idea, but id like to add that before they got their one hour they had a whole day to figure out what they wanna do to him, and then they are supplied with what they need

[chisme]

yeah really hurt the fucker!! like a fucking cheese wire bolt cutters rubber mallet screw driver and pliers. nuff said

[buddymyfriend]

An eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth.