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Phyzzle
Jan 26, 2008

PortalFreak posted:

That being said, I do think there are bad "people," but there's no such thing as a bad "human." In fact, I believe that all humans are inherently neutral. Just because someone's a good/bad person doesn't mean they're a good/bad human being, because they weren't born to be good or bad. They just became good or bad because of their upbringing, environment and personal ideologies (among other things of course). If there were such a thing as a "bad" human, that would suggest the idea that the human in question deserves to die and essentially wiped off the face of the Earth. However, I don't think killing even the worst of people is the best way to deal with the issues they cause, because violence doesn't really solve anything, at the risk of sounding somewhat pretentious. I do think that murderers/rapists/etc. deserved to be punished (with the punishment varying depending on the offense, obviously), but I don't think that they should be killed. There's no reason to do so because they're just human beings.

So, you appear to be suggesting that legality should exist in a separate sphere from 'biological' matters, like life and death. Would you say that rules & morality apply to living persons, so you're against the death penalty for the same reason that you're against whipping the ocean for causing drownings?

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