Death penalty

So a child knows its wrong and they cant fight back so what its ok? Your not making sense. if you have no feeling thens whats the point of laws then? If you dont care then let everything go to hell. Your dumb. Not everyone is a fucking computer.

 

Please don't flame, this is a debate.

 

im debating. he doesnt make sense. law cannot be kept without emotion

 

Laws are founded on emotion (ie morals and ethics) but they are not sustained on emotion. That leads to all sorts of injustice. Have you seen those statues of Lady Justice wearing a blindfold? That's supposed to symbolise impartiality and objectivity.

 

Even though I'm Catholic, and I 'should' be against the death penalty, there are just some things that you don't do.

It all depends on the severity of the crime committed. I think that if you kill someone in cold blood, NOT in self defense, You deserve to die.

 

you mean child molester. not all pedophile are capable of kidnapping and raping like child molester.

 

Not sure who this quote is attributed to, nor am I sure that it's the exact quote, but here goes:

Not even remotely what I said.

Just a quick FYI, as I'm definitely beginning to come across as an arrogant, pretentious pratt now (probably true to at least some extent), but telling someone "You're dumb" and saying that they don't make sense, is not debating. You're supposed to engage with people's views, not dismiss them or bash them without counterpoints.

 

Well, for the base laws such as those prohibiting murder/theft/etc, sure. Those regarding issues such as gay marriage or abortion are another matter.

 

Indeed, and I disagree with these laws as they are developed based on emotion and are therefore silly. Of course gay marriage and abortion should be allowed, there's enough bloody humans in the world as is.

 

In strictly behavioral contexts, the word "pedophilia" has been used to refer to child sexual abuse itself, also called "pedophilic behavior"

 

Not like emotion isn't significant in religion or religious beliefs.

 

Maybe it's just me, but I'd definitely label that as emotion.

 

So if an American killed Hitler while 2 million Jews were being killed, then the American claimed it was justice, you say that a deeper evil is being committed?

 

He meant an innocent person.

 

Oh, well he should have clarified that.

 

Yes, there are many other options, they should have locked Hitler away and either tried to utilise his brains in the field of economics or sent him and studied him psychologically to see if they could identify what had led him down these avenues so that we could avoid them in the future.

No I didn't though I did mean someone who was tried by a court, was in captivity and had been found guilty of the crime. Whether or not they were guilty has no bearing on the outcome.

 

I'm not sure if I understand this. They could be so much more useful if we locked them up in prison versus just killing them. I doubt that they can successfully escape from prison.

Couldn't we strip them of a few rights like television and visiting time and turn prison into a hellhole where you're forced to work and have no means of entertainment ('cept masturbation, cause that's what they all do)?

Killing them really has no advantages. I mean, sure they could have killed, raped, and tortured dozens of people, but killing them doesn't have many advantages.