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Corrik7 posted...

But, no death penalty for the actual mass murderers!

I see your strawman and counter with my own strawman. "Execute everyone on death row despite the possibility that they might have been wrongfully convicted, but deny any and all accusations of sexual assault against any man ever because we don't want to condemn an innocent man now do we?"

But seriously, the death penalty is a complicated issue. There is always going to be a possibility that someone is wrongfully convicted, and the potential to kill an innocent man gives me pause in wanting them dead (I'm not Donald Trump after all, and am not going to put out a full-page ad in the New York Times, calling for the execution of five innocent black kids for a crime they didn't commit). The way I see it, as long as someone is imprisoned, then at least they are being punished for their crimes without the finality of death in the event of innocence.

In the case of the GOP--and I want to make it QUITE clear that regardless of their scumbaggery and direct harm to our democracy prior to the beginning of this year, I NEVER outright wished death upon them--the fact of the matter is that the things they've done to harm this country will never be punished. Ever. There are too many people out there, like yourself Corrik, who look at the influx of hate crimes under this administration and the COVID death toll this year and say "Well that's just people misusing their free will. It's not Trump/the GOP's fault. You can't just pin the blame on them for what other people do." So when I hear that Trump of Trump's associates have caught a deadly disease that they SPECIFICALLY went around convincing America was a hoax at first, and then wasn't a big deal once it became apparently that it was no hoax, then yes, I'm hoping for divine retribution against people who are never going to be punished in ANY way for the harm they've caused to countless people.

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