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You're at least amusing. If there is something specifically you would like to address, then address it. Claiming to win an argument because people aren't responding to you is silly.
Not when I provide Superior argument that defeats your position and keeps My position intact. To claim to not lose an argument that you cannot answer to is "silly".
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Not when I provide Superior argument that defeats your position and keeps My position intact. To claim to not lose an argument that you cannot answer to is "silly".
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Which argument of yours even resembled "superior"?
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Which argument of yours even resembled "superior"?
All of My claims are based on the Forbidden Truth, and are Superior. I do not expect a Truth-rejecting person like you to accept that.

To attempt to dismiss My posts #221 #224 and #226 by saying "so what?" is an attempt to run from their obvious Superiority. Are aformentioned posts are all required to be read and refuted before such a off-hand dismissal can even be considered.
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I was referring to an individual's rights and liberties. Who is best to decide the persons right to die under the death penalty?
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The death penalty ensures that, once a murder has been committed, the marginal cost from committing additional murders effectively equals zero. It therefore generates perverse incentives, with single murderers more likely to become multiple murderers. However, the biggest problem is that it moves debate over the criminal justice system on morality 'to-and-fro' bothering. The discussion should be over the optimal punishment systems and how to minimise prison populations.
You are under the premise that murderers only commit one murder? The death penalty causes them to commit more murders?

Not sure I buy that one.
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Not sure I buy that one.
By dropping the marginal cost from committing additional murders to zero, the death penalty creates perverse incentives. That it will lead to multiple homicides only requires the assumption of rationality. Whilst we cannot assume all criminals are rational, it is of course nonsense to suggest that they are all irrational
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I was referring to an individual's rights and liberties. Who is best to decide the persons right to die under the death penalty?
A jury or judge, I suppose. That's the system we have.
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