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As for the notion that the death penalty is somehow pagan, that is like saying breathing or child bearing is pagan.



Sometimes Larry, I wonder if you even bother reading.
Or maybe the nuances just escape you.



Perhaps you should consider rereading your post yourself before you get snotty in your response. The only way to read your post was that any use of the death penalty is somehow a pagan exercise. My response was that your comment is nonsense.


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My comment was someone, note the italics (well, OK, they are kind of hard to see). The implication was that some in society demand that a person die, even if convicted on less than absolute evidence in the belief that that somehow equates justice. And that is pagan.



If you can find a quote from this forum advocating the use of the death penalty for some quasi religious use please tell us about it. My comment was that a ridiculous standard of evidence is being called for by death penalty opponents. While a higher standard should be used, the requirements called for by some is simply a ruse to do away with capital punishment.

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Again your comparison of people knowingly taking chances with their lives is not a valid comparison with state sponsored execution.



Says Who? So if a child dies after a vaccine shot given in the furtherance of a public health program that is ok, but the mere thought of an innocent person being killed in the furtherance of law and justice makes capital punishment unacceptable?

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And, just for the sake of argument, confining a convicted murderer for the remainder of his life also protects society.



Except, of course, for guards and fellow inmates. Also, if the European experience is any guide, other criminals will take hostages, kill people and blow things up to get their buddies out. Dead criminals aren't worth much.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.