LockeColeMA wrote:
jtftaru wrote:
LockeColeMA wrote:
I think we get the point: If you can prove 100% that someone committed a heinous crime, they should be executed.
Is that correct?
Then can you understand why we can NEVER be 100% sure? That's the point everyone else has been making. You can't know for sure. We can get to beyond a reasonable doubt, but we can't be 100% sure. That reason is why we have systems, to make sure we're as certain as possible.
Well now THERE you go. You actually addressed my point. And it only took 15 posts, 73 insults, a small circle jerk and probably the divine intervention of some omnipotent deity.
Was that so hard? I mean, here we are now having a nice conversation. Isn't this nice?
Ok, back to the point. I don't agree that you can never get 100% proof. For a start, you can have an admission. Even without an admission, a room full of eye-witnesses together with CCTV footage for example is usually enough. Then when he's shown the footage, he will usually confess.
I get the point that you think if it's not 100% then the death penalty shouldn't apply but you are wrong to think there are no situations where 100% proof is attainable.
Also, let's say
hypothetically that we DID get 100% proof. Do you then consider the death penalty appropriate? I get the impression that certain people here, even if they had 100% proof would still fight to have a baby rapist or murderer kept alive. I think this is morally wrong, not to mention a drain on the tax payer.
I do think that some crimes are bad enough to warrant the death penalty.
If there's 100% proof, then sure, the death penalty is fine. Again, the entire point of people arguing against you is not "we like rapists," it's that "in reality you will almost NEVER have 100% proof. Ergo, the death penalty is a bad idea."
The reason you get insulted is because you come at it from a ridiculous angle.
Jtf: I think murderers should be executed. Chavs too.
Asylum: Uh... no?
Jtf: YOU LIKE RAPISTS!
No offense, that's how you've come off the entire time.
You guys are so hypocritical.
If you go back and read the early posts you will see that for about 20 posts at the start, the only argument was against the COST. People were just saying that Death Row costs more than normal prison plus one guy was saying he was outright against the death penalty whatever.
Then when that was over, I spent about 50 posts pointing out that the crappiness of the US penal system was not representative of the world at large and that we weren't talking about systems but about whether the death penalty itself was a suitable punishment for a crime.
I made a simple observation and it is you guys who responded from a totally ridiculous angle.
Me: I think the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for certain crimes
You guys: YOU SICKO YOU WANT BLOOD YOU GET TURNED ON BY SNUFF!!
Me: No, I just think the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for certain crimes
You guys: MORON!!! IN THE US THE APPEALS PROCEDURE CAN LAST FOR YEARS!!!!
etc etc
I made a simple observation about 100 posts ago that sensible, rational people like Aripyanfar responded to in 1 post, giving their opinion.
Meanwhile a bunch of idiotic, rabid jerks spent 50 posts throwing insults and talking about irrelevant crap before all finally addressing the point in a single post they could have done hours ago.
And you wonder why you guys have your reputation.
Sad thing is, you guys don't even realise that the posts are all there in chronological order for anyone to see. You can live in a world of your own but you can't make anyone else live in it...