If all life is precious how can one be pro life and pro death penalty?

Question

I never said I was against the death penalty. In fact in some cases I do it may be called for. I asked a question, plain and simple.

I never tried to equate a fetus with a serial killer. But in my mind life is life. I really wonder how some people can have it both ways.

By the way bible thumpers, the bible says alot of things that society finds does not go along with today. I beleive I read someplace that it even condons abortion in certian cases.

Answer 1

ah ha! someone has asked the question i was meaning to ask!

major kudos to you!

personally, i think it's hypocritical to be pro-life, and pro-death penalty. but i think the reasoning is that they're trying to protect people, whether they be unborn babies or possible victims of a murderer.

Answer 2

If one were to hypothetically take the views you're asking about, it could be argued that being pro-life makes sense because those fetus' are innocent lives who are being victimized without the ability to defend themselves, something believed to be morally wrong.

The death penalty, on the other hand, is reserved for human beings who've been tried and convicted of heinous crimes, and the death penalty, far from revenge, is seen as the means to obtaining Justice.

It can make perfect sense, in this way, to be both pro-life and to support the death penalty. The former protects those who cannot protect themselves, while the latter meets out Justice to those who've violated the precious nature of life.

Answer 3

Life is precious. Innocent life. Once you commit a vile act, your life ceases to be precious, at least to society. I can understand that. And I understand pro-life and anti-capital punishment. I can even understand pro-choice and pro-capital punishment. Don't agree with the last position, but I understand the argument.

What I don't understand is the argument for pro-choice and anti-capital punishment. That is the same as saying a convicted murderer is more valuable than a fetus. Even if you argue that a fetus is not yet a person, I say it still holds more value than a convicted murderer. He has given up his position of value to society.

Answer 4

It's possible to defend. The Bible justifies the death penalty by saying that life is so precious, that those who take it must be given the harshest penalty possible. You don't have to agree with it, but that's not to say it's not justifiable.

But for what it's worth, the Catholic church is pretty consistent with this - pro life and against the death penalty.

Answer 5

You presumably believe that it is wrong to kill a child. I mean a four or five year old, not a fetus. To ask abortion v. death peanlty to someone who believes that a fetus is a child is the same as asking how you can support the death penalty, while being against murder.

Answer 6

If you have one person who hates other people so much, that they would kill anyone they could, or at least kill who ever they felt like, what kind of person is that?

If you have a person who is a normal person, goes to work, has a family, would you want this person to meet the last person?

Life is indeed sacred, but without laws, even more of the normal people would get killed. This is where I lean closer to being conservative. There is a big difference between a murderer killing an innocent person, and the law putting away a murderer who is unrepentant and hateful.

Answer 7

I believe it has to do with a young, innocent life versus a vile, scum-sucking murder/rapist/pedophile/serial killer.

The young life did nothing to deserve termination. The sicko who earned the death penalty did so by taking others' lives or by terribly violating them in some way. Your argument says an unborn child is equal to Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer. I'm gonna have to say no to that comparison.

Answer 8

Yes, I support capital punishment while I don't support abortion. Why? It's actually a simple concept. You see, the guy who murdered four people execution style because they wouldn't let him play Nintendo deserves to be killed. He's voluntarily checked out of humanity by his own choice and there's no logical reason for us to not oblige him. Call it ... thinning out the herd.

The baby, by contrast, did NOTHING to deserve the murder you're about to force upon it. It's not the fault of the baby that the parents didn't have the good sense to steralize themselves or use birth control.

Answer 9

When someone has an abortion, they are destroying a life before it can even begin and fulfill his/her purpose, a life and purpose God created. It's true that God created the life of someone who is sentenced to a death penalty, but God commands us to obey the laws of the land and when we don't there are consequences. Anyway, that's how I am pro life and pro death penalty.

Answer 10

Being pro-life usually is more against the senseless killing of an innocent unborn for selfish reasons. Those who are pro-death penalty are usually in favor of killing a person in the name of social security and justice, not personal gain.

Answer 11

Selectivity