Young kids and parents watching hanging with glee. That's just wrong. Agree?
2006-12-31 10:55:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
No, you can turn off the TV is you're oh so offended. Parents should probably be monitoring what their kids watch anyway. It's called being somewhat responsible. Weird concept, I know! Just because something is on TV does not mean you have to watch it. Besides, I don't think any station showed the full execution footage.
2006-12-31 11:04:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe that it is not only moral to show a legal execution, (with proper warnings regarding the graphic content), but that it is immoral not to do so.
I think it is the duty of a society to ensure that certain norms are obeyed, and murder is strictly out of bounds. Execution for murder on the other hand, is not simply an option, it may be a necessity. Otherwise, since killing one person or a hundred brings the same sentence, life in jail, a murderer has huge incentives to continue killing, and no disincentives. Given the fact that society must have the ultimate right to punish those that have gone beyond the pale, i.e. mass murder, the idea that capital punishment should only be witnessed by a select few is not supportable.
Finally, while I would hope that those viewing the execution would display some sort of dignity and reserve, rendering respect to the process if not the murderer, it is hard to fault a people that have been tyrannized for decades, with hundreds of thousands of their family members killed, if they insult the source of their oppression as he is being executed.
I have seen a lot of people watch the video, (no children, tho), and to a person they have said that Saddam deserved it, even people that don't normally support capital punishment support it in Saddam's case.
Let this video be seen all over the world, Gaddaffi changed his mind about opposing the west after the 2003 invasion, I am sure Mugabe & al-Bashir have been pondering just what this execution may imply for their future.
2006-12-31 11:55:33 · answer #2 · answered by Zivien 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I understand that this is troubling, and ordinarily I would oppose televising an execution. But Saddam Hussein's case is exceptional.
Saddam is not an ordinary criminal, not even an ordinary war criminal. He is a former head of state who is responsible for hundreds of thousands of murders of his own citizens. This is apart from the torture and rape that were carried out by his policy, and does not include combat deaths.
His death is indeed a world event, one that needs to be seen by those who are willing to see it. Even so, there are bound to be rumors that it didn't happen.
His death was quick, unlike the deaths of many of his victims. It is not something that a person could not honorably watch.
2006-12-31 14:01:41 · answer #3 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"hear, hombre, if'n you 'n' yours ain't outta ward off by using sunset, you appropriate be waiting to entice, or you would be pushin' up daisies on Boot Hill!" A cowboy President...we are so fortunate. not! yet getting back on your question, not purely could or not this is televised, yet get somebody to sponsor it--like, say, abode Depot. Hell, you may desire to in all probability even purchase the plans for a gallows from them!
2016-12-11 20:05:52 · answer #4 · answered by lot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a country that shows trash like "Desperate Housewives" and "The O.C." is far worse morally than showing the execution of a criminal.
2006-12-31 11:48:51 · answer #5 · answered by dkiller88 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they need this for closure.
2006-12-31 12:08:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋