markie said:
BAS why are you so against the death penalty for child killers
I'm against the death penalty for all offenders. Killing by the state as a means of social control is uncivilised, and states should not be institutionally violent and uncivilised.
( don't give me a load of bull, about it will make me as bad as them. because that is a load of tosh and you know it.)
It makes you a killer. It dramatically reduces your moral authority over them.
Wanting the death penalty DOES NOT make anybody, a want to be killer.
I don't think I've ever heard anything so daft. How can wanting someone to be killed on your behalf not make you want to be a killer? Unless, as I said, you're a hypocrite who wouldn't do it themselves if they were capable of it, but still want it done for them by somebody else.
if a 80 year old granny says she in favour of the D,P does that make her want to go out and kill someone i dont think so, do you ?
An 80 year old granny is probably limited in her ability to go out and kill someone, but if she
wants the death penalty, then if provided with a means to kill someone that is within her capabilities, she doesn't
want to do it herself then she too is a hypocrite - hypocrisy is not the preserve of the young and fit.
And as for being a squeamish hypocrite how do you come to that assumption, i'v already said that if they ever hurt my kids i will kill them my self if giving the chance, and that is not a threat it's a promise,
I would quite happily press the button/pull the leaver/flick the switch, to end a child killers life
So you
do want to be a killer, in some circumstances.
And guesswhat, that would not make me a killer in the eyes of the law,
The law would not come into it, if you had done it as a state-sanctioned killing then it would not be unlawful. You would not be a murderer, you would not have committed manslaughter, but quite clearly you would have killed someone, and as you said above, it would have been something you wanted to do.
so i could not be labled a killer apart from the likes of you
Explain how it is possible to deliberately kill someone and not be a killer.