Originally posted by: JLGatsby
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
It is inexcusable but it is understandable.
You are quick to pull out the "sub-human" adjective, but you fail to realize your own mortality and fallability if you think their actions are sub-human.
rapists, murders, and the like, are simply simple forms of conscienceness that lack the ability by predesposition or otherwise, or choose not to use their ability to reason in a complex fashion due to sloth or whatever.
We are all predisposed to commit such acts, but our true humanity, the one that Disney portrayed in movies like 'Bambi,' the one displayed prominantly in 'Shlinder's list,' the one demosntrated epicly in 'Saving Private Ryan' is somethign that took an eternity for our species to come to develop.
We are mammals. They are mammals.
We can keep our dicks in our pants and our guns in our holsters and they can't.
It doesn't make them sub-hman. It just makes us more compex and wiser.
I understand what you are saying, but I still contend that they are at best inferior human beings or at worst sub human.
I still say they are a waste of life and do not deserve to live.
This is where humanity, where our picturesque vision of what we think we should be, and how we think we shoud live out our lvies falls apart.
We are incredibly susceptible to hate and paranoia.
Customary executions and such irreversable penalties rely on a precision and infallibillity that human simply can't offer. Hell, computers would be far worse failign to show remorse compassion and the like and such.
People might mention the omnipotent "slipepry slope ' as a plausiblle ourtcome of customary executions, and in many cases they would be right.
We are so flawed, so viral, so utterly dillusional in our safety net of compassion and selflessness, that allowwing ourself to judge the validity of ones continued existence is compeltely and utterly ridiculous if you ask me.
We are compeltely fvked up as it is....having these fvk ups deciding whether those back taxes I owe the IRS are worth the death penalty is not a scenarion I would like to live through.
This is not just about the innocents.
Take the simple lie and comapre it to a gang rape sanctioned by the loacl goverment.
This was in the papers a while ago by the way and took place in India or was it Pakistan.
We are so fallable that in the end, we let our logic capitulate to the simple notion that it's okay if everything is subjective.
Yeah, that gang rape was not a pretty site, but the leaders of the town not only sanctioned it but found nothign wrong with it.
Let's go back to that little lie.
Let's say you, Mr. Gatsby, just got your wife an sl500 for her birthday and lie to her about forgettign to get her something to get her angry and the make the surprise even more surprising.
What if you you add in a dlittle sex with a hooker in the backset earlier that evening before the car is delivered to your house for your wife to find.
What if you add the millionaire coke dealer that your crew kocked off and took the drugs + sl500 from?
Lies and every other human trait are subjective at all levels.
How can we possible hoep to achieve unanimous impartiality and devine wisdom in judging whether we kill someone and not first examine ourselves.
This is not to say that I support or oppose the death penalty. I am jsut talking...