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WorldsStongestNerd
Apr 28, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Caros posted:

Your posts sure do. What does the appeal matter, we can't give these people back the time we've taken from them, and clearly future prospects don't figure into your equations.


If there were sufficient arguments in favor of it, and I mean a LOT of them? Maybe, yeah. My argument against the death penalty isn't purely a moral one, its certainly emboldened by the fact that the death penalty has no redeeming features whatsoever beyond simple vengeance seeking.


I'm going to start beating you with this pipe around fifteen times. Now would you like me to stop, or would you prefer I just kill you? You are arguing that there would be no real difference between the two because I've already beaten you with the pipe.

No he was pretty obviously saying that neither you killing him or just beating him can be taken back. Therefore it makes no sense to say death is different because it's the only punishment that can't be taken back. Stopping the pipe beating is not taking it back, although it's still preferable to death.

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