On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Scott wrote: > > You feel torture is morally repugnant yet would be willing to kill > someone > > who committed the act. Seems a bit hypocritical to me. > > NOT prosecuting is hypocritical. Please show me where I advocated this. > > > You are either a principled moral nation or you are not. You either > enforce the law or you do not. > > The severity of the penalty should be proportional to your value of > the depth of the crime. I acn think of other crimes more heinous than torture that should have the death penalty. Rape and child abuse would be at the top of that list. So, until those crimes also include the death penalty, I woudl disagree on the severity of the punishment. The United States will either come through this challenge a moral principled nation that makes no compromise on principle or it will whine about difficult circumstances and head into moral decline and erosion. I agree with Regan on this: there no "grey" area and no compromise. But, if someone feels torture is absolutely necessary, then they should have the courage to jump on the grenade, and we should have the courage to prosecute them for it Prosecute? Yes. Execute? See my comments above. -- Scott Stroz --------------- The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296086 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
