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Old 03-04-2008, 01:31 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Again, I don't think taking some one's life is acceptable. If someone does that, they must face the punishment. That is being locked away from society for the rest of their lives. I'm not concerned with the cruel and unusual punishment aspect of the argument. And those arguments don't make it acceptable to kill someone for their crimes.


Again, I see a moral disconnect in that position.

My moral compass tells me that torturing someone for the rest of his/her life is worse than executing him/her.

My common sense -- not to mention numerous psychological studies -- tells me that isolating someone from virtually all human contact is psychologically tortuous.

In the choice between lifetime isolation and execution, I see execution as the moral high ground.
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