2006-11-17 10:25:28 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
when you choose to take the "RIGHT OF LIFE" from an innocent person, you have now forfieted all rights to anything in my book.
2006-11-17 10:35:34 · answer #1 · answered by CaptainObvious 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It actually says "... they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...", so I really don't know what that means to anti-theists.
The short story is that the Declaration of Independence is not the governing document, the Constitution is. The Constitution allows the States to make laws. If one of those laws says that murders forfeit their right to live, then that is the way it is.
2006-11-17 11:31:35 · answer #2 · answered by ML 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Should we therefore allow murderers to roam free? The Declaration of Independence also says we have the right to liberty.
1st the Declaration of Independence is not a legal document in this country. When have you heard of a law being struck down because it violated the Declaration of Independence? I think next time will be the 1st.
2nd, the Declaration say that we were endowed by our creator with these rights, it doesn't say we can't forfeit these right by committing crimes. I'm sure that the authors would agree with my analysis.
2006-11-17 10:38:50 · answer #3 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I understand what your saying but how would you explain that to the family burying their loved one. Unfortunately we live in a world that is so messed up that wrong is right and vice verse, we have to make decisions about these things based on each individual situation, and even then justice is rarely served. So do we kill someone who kills someone to show that killing someone is wrong.... Sometimes we have to in order to stop the killing....
2006-11-17 10:40:26 · answer #4 · answered by ashley k 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You forfeit your rights when you deny an innocent of theirs.The killer is a threat to the people and has forfeited his right to be apart of society.The only proven method of assuring he does not kill again is to execute him.
Many killers continue to kill while they are incarcerated.
2006-11-17 10:32:53 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they should be in prison ether. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. the man is taking it away when he puts a murder in prison. Let them run free, just not in my neighborhood.
2006-11-17 11:21:05 · answer #6 · answered by roger k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those who commit brutal murders, should be sentenced to death, and then it carried out within a certain period of time, instead of spread out over so many years, that way, we the tax payers dont have to support them.
2006-11-17 10:55:33 · answer #7 · answered by Obamunism 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that murderers should all die. But first they should make sure it wasn't an accident (that was for the sensitive liberals)
2006-11-17 11:09:02 · answer #8 · answered by tcreede 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about the life of the victim?
2006-11-17 10:27:24 · answer #9 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It also says the right to liberty. I wouldn't say anyone in jail has liberty.
2006-11-17 10:33:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋