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Originally Posted by Tigerlily87
Yeah, Scientology
The Scientologists will charge you a small fortune for the privilege of being tortured, Islam at the very least is free. So Islam is the Universal Healthcare of Torture, everyone has access to a decent level of torture and public execution.
It certainly is a great deterrent. You can't tell me if the likes of the school shooters weren't taken out back and shot in the head with a stern warning anyone who does anything like it will be next it won't make people think twice.
As a hard right winger I oppose the death penalty for any reason.
It achieves nothing and LWOP is worse. Imagine being caged never to be let out.
How many people in Saudi Arabia have their hand(s)* cut off? (not very many) How many people are in American prison for theft? (millions)
Cost of prison: $60,000 per year per inmate, cost of ax: $60, reusable.
*they cut off only one hand the first time, other hand the second time. I challenge you to find someone with both hands cut off.
So you claim. Show some facts to back it up.
The fact is you have no idea how common this barbaric brutality is or is not. You have no idea at all of what it is like to live in a society that allows this brutality either.
Ask yourself this question: Why does only Saudi Arabia cut the hands off thieves? Do any of the other Muslim nations do the same? How much does this punishment cut down the thievery there?
Stuff like this always sounds so simple. Execution for a fact is never simple. It never has been a simple matter and never will be. If you ever got your simple-minded wish, you would not love the life it gave you. Terror is never fun to live with.
There was a reason public hangings on Sunday after church services was a good deterrent to murder and robbery. You got to see the consequences of someones bad choices.
It wasn't a good deterrent. That's sorta where the argument breaks down.
Last edited by Dane_in_LA; 02-27-2018 at 02:37 PM..
After reading this thread, I think it just shows just how bad the mental health situation in america is! Some VERY disturbed folks here. Of course it's mostly the same folks who are into the " arm everybody" crowd too.
Take it with a grain of salt though- I highly doubt any of the barbaric ones here have the stones to see death up close; especially gruesome ones.
Just more hollow hubris from the 101st Chairborne Division! Probably soil themselves and grab their AR-15 if a mouse ran across the floor
It certainly is a great deterrent. You can't tell me if the likes of the school shooters weren't taken out back and shot in the head with a stern warning anyone who does anything like it will be next it won't make people think twice.
It has certainly deterred certain crimes in some countries.
Seems to me most mass shooters do not expect to survive.
Sounds great until you realize that when we execute a innocent man, that recording will be available. People will hold it up and point to it why the death penalty is bad.
Plus...those who do the crime the OP is discussing...some of them WANT that attention.
I would not feel safe in many of these countries featured.
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