An eye for an eye? Didn't think that mentality of you Shaman.
On May 19, 4:24 am, the taoist shaman <[email protected]> wrote: > i think the victoms family should decide wether or not killer is put > to death , and if so , the method of exicution , take itchy and > scratchy from the simpsons for example , itchy covers scratchy in BBQ > sauce , and opens a box of flesh eating ants ! > > > > Chuck Bowling wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:23 AM, [email protected] < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Why should we not? > > > Why should we not what? > > > > Should we instead make our selfs guilty of the same behaviour that > > > seems universal reprehensabile? Should we then sink to that level > > > ourselves? Two wrongs don't make a right and all that. > > > My original point was that life is cheap. We don't kill because it's right > > or wrong. We kill for expediency. > > > > The point is to maintian that moral superiority. If a man steals from > > > me, can I then steal from him? Wouldn't that make me also a theif? > > > Personally I don't claim any kind of superiority - moral or otherwise. If > > somebody steals from me I'll try to steal back my property and possibly > > anything else that happens to be lying around. I may even give the guy a > > punch in the nose on the way out the door. If you want to call me a thief > > for it go ahead. > > > > revenge killings as we know only lead to further revenge killings. We > > > have here in the UK a growing youth gang problem, with kids killing > > > other kids for slights imagined or otherwise, and then in turn the > > > other gang of kids killing members of the ther other gang. Is that > > > right, it is the correct behaviour? > > > This just leads into the whole argument - is war right or wrong. Is it wrong > > for a street gang to retaliate when it's territory is breached by a rival > > gang? If no then why is it right for nations to do the same thing? > > > > Killing a killer makes no logical sense. > > > I disagree. Killing a killer has value. > > > It removes a threat from society. > > It frees up resources needed to protect the society from that killer. > > It provides a deterrent against other killings.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
