Capital Punishment

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  1. Xelasnave.1947 Valued Senior Member

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    How come no Capital Punishment when the bible is very clear.

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  3. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    How come no Capital Punishment when the bible is very clear.
    Because we're not in 500BC Israel and our legislature is not controlled by Abraham.

    Because, even if that legislature is religious, the predominant religion tends to be Christianity, the founder of which famously said:
    https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-7-1/
    Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
     
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  5. sculptor Valued Senior Member

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  7. sideshowbob Sorry, wrong number. Valued Senior Member

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    John 8:7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.​
     
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  9. sculptor Valued Senior Member

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    wow
    25 kills in a row
    maybe
    just maybe
    that's a bit of overkill?
     
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  10. Xelasnave.1947 Valued Senior Member

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    I think the list is far to short.
    Alex
     
  11. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    What - you'd like more people executed on more charges?
     
  12. Xelasnave.1947 Valued Senior Member

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    No I am sure there are things they must have left out.
    Alex
     
  13. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    or left behind?
     
  14. scorpius a realist Valued Senior Member

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    Bc this country is not United states of Jebus
    Read the Law o the land aka US Constitution

    Mind you with 8 bilion people on earth some bad aples should removed imo
     
  15. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Carlin was so far ahead of his time giving us a picture of history.

    (warning, crude language)
     
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  16. kx000 Valued Senior Member

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    Justice itself isn't entirely free from kill joy, to be saved you must be in danger which is the opposite of salvation.
     
  17. Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member

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    I'd like to get into an argument yet I can't cause I'm so confused as to what you mean.
     
  18. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    I interpret that as : "we're all sinners and need to be punished".
    The death penalty is just a negotiable degree of punishment......

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  19. kx000 Valued Senior Member

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    Violence is by nature unneccesary to God, so Christians who conserve violence are murderous. The death penalty is defiantly sadistic for those who watch on with glee.
     
  20. sculptor Valued Senior Member

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    imho
    Capital punishment is murder by another name.
    and
    Many on death row are innocent.
    Our adversarial criminal justice system is dysfunctional.
    so
    Capital punishment is an arbitrary exercise in murder.

    but
    That's the culture in which we live(and die).
     
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  21. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    The prevalence of false confession, inaccurate identification, serious police and prosecutorial malfeasance, and societally enforced injustice via undermining of civil rights and the like, rises significantly in capital cases.
     
  22. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    But that only applies to humans who can exercise "choice".
    In nature violence is necessary. For some things to live, some things must die. (Hellstrom Chronicle).
     
  23. Traverse Registered Member

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    The practice of Capital Punishment reminds us of how thinly-veneered is our "red in tooth & claw" nature. It's a barbaric abomination, and those advocating for it these days have a personally venomous vendetta to settle, a sadistic streak inside them, or serious mental illness. The majority of sheep-citizens in the US & elsewhere go along with it because they simply don't care, as it's not in their face.
     

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