Date sent: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:31:23 -0500
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From: "Joe E. Dees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: state terrorism: capital punishment
> Date sent: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:15:50 -0400 (EDT)
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> From: Lagusta Pauline Yearwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: state terrorism: capital punishment
> Originally to: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >
> > > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Joe E. Dees wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When we kill the guilty, we save the innocent they would have killed
> > > > had they lived.
> >
> > But there are other ways to punish that would do that as well, without all
> > the moral stickiness that capital punishment gets us into.
> >
> > I quote the bumper sticker that changed my opinion about capital
> > punishment: "why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing
> > people is wrong?"
>
> To keep them from killing even more people, since by already killing
> they have demonstrated the capacity to do this. Remember, Osama
> Bin Ladin's people didn't send all those people in Egypt, Kenya and
> Tanzania to life imprisonment - they KILLED them. Also, he would
> most likely continue directing and financing terrorist operations,
> through his lawyers, from prison.
> > It's so clear after that, to me. If we are truly to have ideals and
> > morals, we have to stick to them absolutely: killing people is morally
> > wrong. Therefore we cannot kill people.
> >
> >
> > And, Mr. Joe Dees, I find your apparent inability to have a rational
> > doscussion without hurtling disgusting insults ("you should be a
> > defense lawyer for a rapist"!) quite lousy. No one wants to listen to
> > opinions that are distainfully spat out at them rather than carefully and
> > calmly (though not dispassionately, don't misunderstand) reasoned
> > through. I sure don't, that's why I'm beginning to delete all your posts.
> >
> > I don't understand what's happening to listservs, people are so terribly
> > rude lately. But, on the other hand, at least we're talking about
> > something real, something besides lewinsk-what's-her-name and the
> > back-to-school sales at Marshall Fields, like the rest of the country
> > seems to be.
Also, nothing is ruder than truckbombing people.
>
> > Lagusta
> >
> >
>
