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Old 07-15-2008, 09:27 AM   #138
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Originally Posted by mykalberta View Post
As soon as you break the laws of society, you are then no longer subject to the same sympathy as a normal citizen. If he killed people in a state that has capital punishment and a jury found him guilty with malice, then he has to accept the punishment of the state.

Its not complicated, and yes I believe in capital punishment.
It's interesting that the pro-capital punishment crowd keeps re-iterating "it's not complicated", "It's simple", etc...

Seems to me justice and social order are pretty complicated. That is to say nothing of irrevocably putting to death an individual, regardless of what they've done.

So, I wonder which came first: the pro-capital punishment crowd's simplistic view of legal order or their presumption that killing someone is an inherently simple act.
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