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Started by Nam, July 24, 2014, 01:11:20 AM

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Nam

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on July 26, 2014, 03:53:30 PM
That was one of the feelings I had at the time. Another was the feeling you get when you take your friend to pick up his daughters from the country morgue.

Revenge is a powerful emotion.

-Nam
Mad cow disease...it's not just for cows, or the mad!

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Nam on July 26, 2014, 08:30:53 PM
Revenge is a powerful emotion.

-Nam
No doubt. I found the smell interesting.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

doorknob

if it's for revenge then it's ok to kill? Just wondering.

And I do find it conflicting that the same people who are against the death penalty are for abortion. Just wanted to point that out.

Hijiri Byakuren

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on July 26, 2014, 03:53:30 PM
That was one of the feelings I had at the time. Another was the feeling you get when you take your friend to pick up his daughters from the country morgue.
Which, again, says less about how you feel toward the death penalty than it does about your willingness to suspend rational thought for the sake of revenge.
Speak when you have something to say, not when you have to say something.

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Atheon

Sure there are those who deserve to die, but it's not about what people deserve; its about justice in a civilized society. Civilized societies don't kill. Plus it's more cost effective to imprison criminals for life than to kill them... this is a fact that's been well known for decades.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca

Atheon

And abortion has no connection. The death penalty ends human lives while abortion does not.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca

doorknob

I beg to differ. Abortion absolutely ends human life. You can flower it up and use definitions that skirt reality but abortion is killing a baby end of story. It's just that people don't want to hear that. they want their abortions. Sorry but I call a duck a duck.

As for the death penalty it is barbaric and uncivilized. I've never been supportive of it. But I also don't support the inhumane treatment of prisoners. I think some kind of reformation needs to be seriously looked at. I know it's been tried and failed in the past but in these modern times you can't tell me that all we can do is nothing but lock people up for life.

Even if there was an effective reformation people would be in an outrage if a murder was reformed  and set free instead of punished. The predominantly christian country Christianity that preaches forgiveness, does the opposite of forgiveness. They demand blood and a pound of flesh.

I also think there could be programs offered that could be preventative measures. well there is a program that's not well known, If you go to the hospital and say you are homicidal or will hurt some one they can put you in the lunny bin. As to whether that works permanently is yet to be seen.

Shiranu

QuoteI beg to differ. Abortion absolutely ends human life. You can flower it up and use definitions that skirt reality but abortion is killing a baby end of story. It's just that people don't want to hear that. they want their abortions. Sorry but I call a duck a duck.

It ends a potential human life, not a babies'. A human fetus is no more a human than an omelet is a chicken. A baby is, by definition, an animal that has already been born. That is not flowering it up, that is the simple scientific truth and definition. If you have a problem with that, take it up with the scientists who decided at what point a zygote becomes an embryo becomes a fetus becomes a baby becomes a....

Abortions take place when an embryo resembles a human about as much as it resembles a chicken, a lizard or a elephant. You can argue that you are terminating a future human, but ultimately at the point of abortion you are "killing" an entity that cannot sustain itself, cannot think or have any sort of sentience, most likely has the most basic of feeling...

While I have some ethical issues with ending that, at the end of the day I think the termination of life at that point is preferable to it being born into a world where it is at best not wanted, at worse going to be abused, tortured, and who know's what else.
"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on July 27, 2014, 02:28:28 AM
Which, again, says less about how you feel toward the death penalty than it does about your willingness to suspend rational thought for the sake of revenge.
My decision was very rational. I doubt you'll agree, but then I don't worry about that kind of thing. The fucker is dead, and that was the most rational solution to the problem.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

doorknob

Rather than hijacking this thread I'll start an abortion thread.

I have a responds.

Hijiri Byakuren

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on July 27, 2014, 07:40:08 AM
My decision was very rational. I doubt you'll agree, but then I don't worry about that kind of thing. The fucker is dead, and that was the most rational solution to the problem.
No, GS, that's not rational, it's revenge. You and your friend wasted every other taxpayer's money to fulfill your own need for revenge. The point of justice is to make sure the guy can never hurt another person, one way or another. Killing him is going far beyond what is actually required. I know that sentiment will upset you. I don't really care.
Speak when you have something to say, not when you have to say something.

Sargon The Grape - My Youtube Channel

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on July 27, 2014, 11:46:47 AM
No, GS, that's not rational, it's revenge. You and your friend wasted every other taxpayer's money to fulfill your own need for revenge. The point of justice is to make sure the guy can never hurt another person, one way or another. Killing him is going far beyond what is actually required. I know that sentiment will upset you. I don't really care.
Actually, I'm the one that doesn't care. The fucker's dead. EOF
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Mermaid

Quote from: doorknob on July 27, 2014, 06:56:37 AM
I beg to differ. Abortion absolutely ends human life. You can flower it up and use definitions that skirt reality but abortion is killing a baby end of story. It's just that people don't want to hear that. they want their abortions. Sorry but I call a duck a duck.

you are stating your opinion as if it's a fact.
A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities â€" all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. -TR

Solitary

Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on July 24, 2014, 11:51:29 AM
I've been exposed twice..once by accident and once trying to off myself. You get real groggy and sleepy, but it's still painful. You just can't move easily. Your limbs get REALLY heavy.. But it feels like grit in your veins..
SEE! You just had to ruin my day, I thought it was painless. I over dosed on a bottle of aspirin, amitriptyline, and six beers while watching fish in an aquarium---I went to sleep, and woke up three days later and had to go to work. I still have nightmares about going to work.  Solitary
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Nam

Quote from: Solitary on July 30, 2014, 07:52:34 PM
SEE! You just had to ruin my day, I thought it was painless. I over dosed on a bottle of aspirin, amitriptyline, and six beers while watching fish in an aquarium---I went to sleep, and woke up three days later and had to go to work. I still have nightmares about going to work.  Solitary

Those poor fish

-Nam
Mad cow disease...it's not just for cows, or the mad!