zOMG! GW Bush and the Flying Shoe

[ForeverNight]

Personally, I gave up on Iraq progressing when they executed Saddam.

 

You know, try as I might, I still don't understand this...

 

What has Executing Saddam -a man who doesn't deserve the term and has undoubtedly earned his fate several times over- have to do with 'Progressing'?

[Tommycat]

You know, try as I might, I still don't understand this...

 

What has Executing Saddam -a man who doesn't deserve the term and has undoubtedly earned his fate several times over- have to do with 'Progressing'?

 

Some people feel that the death penalty is an antiquated and regressive means of punishment. To them anyone that doesn't think the death penalty is wrong, is backwards.

 

Me personally, I just feel bad that they couldn't kill him more times.

[Darth InSidious]

You know, try as I might, I still don't understand this...

 

What has Executing Saddam -a man who doesn't deserve the term and has undoubtedly earned his fate several times over- have to do with 'Progressing'?

"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."

Thanks to modern medical technology, we have the power to rebuild people. We can make them better, faster, stronger...

[ForeverNight]

"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."

 

An eye for two eyes will only make half the world blind.

 

Anyway, once you assume that position, how are you going to enforce any type of law. Not all criminals are nutjobs, I'll agree, however -at least in the US- our prisons have more repeat prisoners than first-timers.

 

What does that tell you?

 

To me, at least, it tells me that the consequences of an action aren't high enough.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

An eye for two eyes will only make half the world blind.

 

Anyway, once you assume that position, how are you going to enforce any type of law. Not all criminals are nutjobs, I'll agree, however -at least in the US- our prisons have more repeat prisoners than first-timers.

 

What does that tell you?

 

To me, at least, it tells me that the consequences of an action aren't high enough.

and norway has one of the lowest crime rates in the world with a maximum prison sentence of 21 years. that tells me the consequences for criminal behavior implemented in the u.s. now aren't effective and the logic behind them is flawed.

[Vaelastraz]

Imo it's quite hard to come up with a moral reason as to why we should punish people for crimes. I mean, obviously we should, but not out of revenge or "justice". Isn't prison all about protecting the society, deterrence and rehabilitation?

[EnderWiggin]

An eye for two eyes will only make half the world blind.

 

Anyway, once you assume that position, how are you going to enforce any type of law. Not all criminals are nutjobs, I'll agree, however -at least in the US- our prisons have more repeat prisoners than first-timers.

 

What does that tell you?

 

To me, at least, it tells me that the consequences of an action aren't high enough.

 

Tells me that our rehabilitation programs for prisoners are ineffective.

 

and norway has one of the lowest crime rates in the world with a maximum prison sentence of 21 years. that tells me the consequences for criminal behavior implemented in the u.s. now aren't effective and the logic behind them is flawed.

QFE.

 

_EW_