Posted by Matt from CT on November 09, 2009 at 13:29:48 from (173.13.67.130):
In Reply to: O/T Fort Hood shooter posted by 37 chief on November 09, 2009 at 12:35:22:
How many here calling for blood in the last few days were agreeing with sentiments sarcastically talking about Islam being a religion of peace?
He's in the hospital because we place a pretty high value on human life, higher then many other societies in the past and many others still around.
And we're fortunate to enjoy the human and economic resources to be able to respect that value we put on them.
My feelings on the death penalty line up pretty well with the Catholic Church, which is pretty consistent with it's condemnation of both capital punishment (in modern, Western society) and abortion.
Catholicism does not hold the death penalty itself to be fundamentally wrong -- it holds that we can show compassion instead. The needs of society to be safe can be satisfied in a modern industrial state by imprisonment. If you were to be on some small island lacking the society that could afford to and safely lock away a person who so violates the expectations of society, then capital punishment is acceptable.
While I in general oppose capital punishment in the U.S., it's not because I believe the state does not have the right to impose it; I oppose it because I believe there is no need for it. Put me on that island lacking resources, I could serve as executioner and sleep well.
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