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| Topic | Would you support the death penalty for the florida school shooter? |
| Zeus 02/21/18 3:50:03 AM #76: | yutterh posted... It's not out of vengeance though. I am talking about serial killers, mass shooters, child rapists, etc the worst of the worst kind of people. If you want to go on a killing spree like that, then the consequence is your death. We no longer need you in this society or want to try to change you. Those acts are irredeemable. That's kind of a vengeance attitude, though. Otherwise, a lot of the culprits for the crimes you describe suffer from some kind of mental illness -- which may be treatable in some cases, such as Kip Kinkel's schizophrenia -- so it raises some pretty serious moral questions. Granted, America wouldn't be the first nation to execute the mentally ill because they find them inconvenient, but usually that's reserved more for developing and undeveloped nations who don't tend to have the same moral fiber as a developed nation. In the case of child rapists, chemical castration -- as a voluntary measure -- is a *very* easy way to redeem them. Granted, it's an unpleasant workaround until better treatment methods become available. --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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