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Originally Posted by I-Neo-Con";p="
Why should a murderer live when he himself gave the victim no such oppurtunity? Does that make the murderer more worthy of life? To the victim's family a life imprisonment sentence is a life-long taunt. "I live and your daughter dies!" What is that? Pure sickness, humanity's tragedy. While the family mourns, society grimaces, it needs the sinful blood, it needs vengeance. Why? Because it feels good.
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Why? Because principles only mean anything when you stick to them at times when it is least easy to do so.
When I hear of a rapist murderer, sure I want him do die too. But my principles are true becuase I am willing to forgo my lust for revenge to uphold my compassion for innocent people.
My opposition to the death penalty has nothing to do at all with people who commit murder. It has to do with people dying innocently.