Capital punishment? What a waste!

soon2bepro · #1 01-30-2006, 03:51 AM

Once you decide a certain human being doesn't deserve to live, why just kill it?

There are much better uses to be drawn from this form of life, including research experiments and slavery. (forced work is a form of slavery)

chrisnice · #2 01-30-2006, 03:55 AM

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

---Martin Niemoeller

soon2bepro · #3 01-30-2006, 04:15 AM

Is that supposed to be an argument against my proposition?

chrisnice · #4 01-30-2006, 04:21 AM

Yeah. Just put prisoners at the top.

soon2bepro · #5 01-30-2006, 05:18 AM

Doesn't make sense, that is not an argument against what I said. Maybe something else. Make your point if you want to, but this is nonsense.

If you want to speak against/for capital punishment this is NOT your thread. That's not the point here.

New001 · #6 01-30-2006, 06:07 AM

The quote makes sense to me in this situation. Simply view the problem as a prisoner's rights issue. Do they have a right to humane treatment?

soon2bepro · #7 01-30-2006, 07:04 AM

why would they have any rights if they're being executed? hilarious [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

New001 · #8 01-30-2006, 07:15 AM

I don't understand why you're so confused here. You're arguing that they shouldn't be executed and instead be used for research, slavery, etc. Thus, they are prisoners and they are alive.

_TKO_ · #9 01-30-2006, 12:20 PM

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There are much better uses to be drawn from this form of life, including research experiments and slavery.

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There are two reasons for execution, neither of which include the absence of utility: one is deterrence; the other is retribution.

Your argument might apply better to the homeless.

morphball · #10 01-30-2006, 01:58 PM

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There are two reasons for execution, neither of which include the absence of utility: one is deterrence; the other is retribution.

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How does using death row inmates as lab rats for horrid expiraments not fulfill these two utilities?