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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| What'sinaname wrote: | | Cat haters should be put to death |
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| HAL wrote: | | What'sinaname wrote: | | Cat haters should be put to death |
What if it didn't happen? |
Enough about you HAL, what about the Pies?
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Doc63
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| Tannin wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | The kind of people I'd pitch this at are the Julian Knights of the world. It's not so much that they've forfeited the right to live, but that their continued life is of no benefit to anyone. Depriving someone like him of liberty when he's never going to be rehabilitated is an exercise in futility. What possible reason is there for keeping him alive?
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Only that the death penalty exercises a macabre fascination for certain disturbed individuals, and acts as a motivating factor to commit crimes which attract that penalty. That is the only reason I can think of to set against the several good reasons for it. On balance, it's a tough call.
Although we need to be careful that an "extreme circumstances only" death penalty doesn't become a thin end of the wedge thing. It's easy enough to imagine a mad-dog government whipping up some hysteria and then extending it to more and more crimes, including some acts that deserve a medal more than a penalty. (I'm thinking of the recent US whistleblowers as examples.) And if you can't imagine a mad-dog government doing that, you haven't been paying attention for the last 18 months. |
You both make very good pints here Stui & Tannin. I honestly believe that Knight, Bryant & the bloke who threw his daughter off the bridge have no hope of rehabilitation, and will never be released. I don't believe there is any valid reason for their continued existence. But I wouldn't want to live under a Government with that sort of power. I just wouldn't trust them.
Having said that, I'm very disappointed with the standard of criminals we have in our prisons these days. I was certain that all three of them would have been topped by now.
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| Doc63 wrote: | | Tannin wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | The kind of people I'd pitch this at are the Julian Knights of the world. It's not so much that they've forfeited the right to live, but that their continued life is of no benefit to anyone. Depriving someone like him of liberty when he's never going to be rehabilitated is an exercise in futility. What possible reason is there for keeping him alive?
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Only that the death penalty exercises a macabre fascination for certain disturbed individuals, and acts as a motivating factor to commit crimes which attract that penalty. That is the only reason I can think of to set against the several good reasons for it. On balance, it's a tough call.
Although we need to be careful that an "extreme circumstances only" death penalty doesn't become a thin end of the wedge thing. It's easy enough to imagine a mad-dog government whipping up some hysteria and then extending it to more and more crimes, including some acts that deserve a medal more than a penalty. (I'm thinking of the recent US whistleblowers as examples.) And if you can't imagine a mad-dog government doing that, you haven't been paying attention for the last 18 months. |
You both make very good pints here Stui & Tannin. I honestly believe that Knight, Bryant & the bloke who threw his daughter off the bridge have no hope of rehabilitation, and will never be released. I don't believe there is any valid reason for their continued existence. But I wouldn't want to live under a Government with that sort of power. I just wouldn't trust them.
Having said that, I'm very disappointed with the standard of criminals we have in our prisons these days. I was certain that all three of them would have been topped by now. |
I think it's called protective custody, or solitary confinement, but yeah I agree!
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Tannin 
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| Doc63 wrote: | | You both make very good pints here Stui & Tannin. |
I'm sure I can speak for Stui as well as myself when I say that we both love a good pint. 
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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| Tannin wrote: | | Doc63 wrote: | | You both make very good pints here Stui & Tannin. |
I'm sure I can speak for Stui as well as myself when I say that we both love a good pint. |
Absolutely. 
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What'sinaname
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How does everyone feel about the Myuran Sukumaran decision?
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Doc63
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| What'sinaname wrote: | | How does everyone feel about the Myuran Sukumaran decision? |
A complete waste of a bullet. They should hang him instead.
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How does every one feel about the Paris killers? Death penalty?
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Doc63
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| think positive wrote: | | How does every one feel about the Paris killers? Death penalty? |
Yes, very slowly, very painfully and then uploaded to You Tube.
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| think positive wrote: | | How does every one feel about the Paris killers? Death penalty? |
A fake martyrdom? No way ! The hell they deserve is to live long enough in a sterile prison to realise that their ideology is bankrupt, backward defeated, and unworthy of the belief for which they gave a whole life of beautiful freedom. If there's a cell they can share with Anders Breivik that would be even better.
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stui magpie
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| Mugwump wrote: | | think positive wrote: | | How does every one feel about the Paris killers? Death penalty? |
A fake martyrdom? No way ! The hell they deserve is to live long enough in a sterile prison to realise that their ideology is bankrupt, backward defeated, and unworthy of the belief for which they gave a whole life of beautiful freedom. If there's a cell they can share with Anders Breivik that would be even better. |
Yep, screw giving them the martyrdom, lock the bastards up or feed them to pigs.
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