I posted two questions earlier. Though they're simple to me, it seems I am still talking over people's heads. Let me try again:
Does the negative, angry emotion that so many people feel in thinking about or discussing the death penalty largely prevent them from learning about the death penalty and related human rights issues?
Ready, of course, for your calm, patient and well-considered views.
2006-10-10 11:50:03 · 9 answers · asked by voltaire 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Negative angry emotion prevents them from learning about and rationally discussing many issues. The death penalty is one of them.
2006-10-10 11:52:55 · answer #1 · answered by MathGuy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only negative, angry emotions I have encountered when the death penalty happens to be a topic of discussion has been from the proponents of abolishing the death penalty. This usually happens because they are so passionate about the subject and cannot convince someone that their view is the right one. Sometimes the one not being convinced is me I admit.
It happens that the only argument I cannot disagree with is the one of putting to death an innocent man. Otherwise, the only vision that enters my head when this is up for debate is the one of the innocent victim. If we do not have the right to put to death a person who kills another, then what right did that person have to end the life of another, and another, and another...........
2006-10-10 12:11:54 · answer #2 · answered by 63vette 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
definition of insanity = trying to do the same thing and expect to get a differant result..............ok so i am answering an insane person then...well logically in society (all societies) we have rules.
Rules keep us having a society. Without rules society breaks down and then we have chaos and ancharcy. When this happens murder, rape, and many types of mayhem occur with no penalty. Thus rules are important. That being said then enforcing rules are also just as important. As a society one shooses penalties for actions taken by an individual and appropriate penalties must be incurred.Otherwise we end up with chaos. When rules are not enforced, again society tends to disreguard them , which again causes chaos, and such. thus we MUST enforce the rules and the penalties or oursociety will falldown, as quickly as the roman empire or any other great society in human history. think about that next time you say stop the death penalty!
2006-10-10 12:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely! When one is enraged or consumed with negative and angry emotions it is very difficult to separate your feelings from the facts or views of an issue. It is perfectly fine to be impassioned about an issue. It is quite another thing to be so emotional that you border on ignorance by only accepting your view as the correct one and definitely makes you narrow minded. And yet in an ironic twist it is usually the perfect combination of both human characteristics that make the best activists. Politics, go figure!
2006-10-10 12:57:25 · answer #4 · answered by MaHaa 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an emotional issue. Some people don't have a problem with putting a criminal to death, some do. I think that we should find a new way to deal with the problem. Some people think that it's worse spending the rest of your life in prison, others think that the person should get a speedy trip to hell. I suggest that we change the whole process. Give the person a trial, if convicted give them one appeal, if they are still found guilty they should have to pay for the life they took with their own. Put them to sleep like you would for any surgery, then remove their organs for transplants to save the lives of others. There would be no complaints about cruel or unusual punishment. People are put to sleep every day. The organs taken would save the lives of many others. Wouldn't this be a fair and just way to pay for what they did?
2006-10-10 12:14:36 · answer #5 · answered by Jack S. Buy more ammo! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
O.K. Granted, the death penalty has never been applied fairly
along racial or economic lines. The recent advances in forensic
technology have resulted in the release of many who were
wrongly imprisoned. Living in a society that is still willing to
level the ultimate penalty for the ultimate crime must be better
than the alternative. Fear of incarceration keeps most of the
populace's base emotions and impulses in check. We must
protect ourselves from the 2% who have no regard for other
peoples lives.
2006-10-10 12:46:21 · answer #6 · answered by Farnham the Freeholder 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You must be so pleased for yourself. Perhaps your mother is, too. No, if my son acted as arrogantly as you have on this, a public "stage," I'd be mortified. Go back and admire yourself in the mirror.
2006-10-10 12:04:10 · answer #7 · answered by 34th B.G. - USAAF 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, i have heard several people say that they didn't want to be called a murderer.
2006-10-10 11:56:36 · answer #8 · answered by panurple81 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
shut up you fool
2006-10-10 11:58:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋