03-22-2005, 05:18 AM
I always hated that argument. "Why not worry about XXXX, instead of my little issues". Yes, there are more important issues. Let's put 100% of our time to solving Cancer. And let's ignore everything else on the planet until that gets fixed.
A few points: Bush being gung-ho on the death penalty while wanting to save her life isn't contradictory. It's a pretty easy and consistent chain of logic: All life is precious blah blah blah. Everything should be done to protect anyone's life, even that of a life that hasn't been borne. If you kill someone, thereby taking their right to live, you lose yours. So people on death row should be murdered, terrorists who kill, people who support terrorists who kill, governments who support terrorists who kill -- all have forfeited their rights to live and should all be killed.
The "retard" who was executed was found competant to stand trial and therefore was not actually "retarded", so that argument doesn't hold water.
A few points: Bush being gung-ho on the death penalty while wanting to save her life isn't contradictory. It's a pretty easy and consistent chain of logic: All life is precious blah blah blah. Everything should be done to protect anyone's life, even that of a life that hasn't been borne. If you kill someone, thereby taking their right to live, you lose yours. So people on death row should be murdered, terrorists who kill, people who support terrorists who kill, governments who support terrorists who kill -- all have forfeited their rights to live and should all be killed.
The "retard" who was executed was found competant to stand trial and therefore was not actually "retarded", so that argument doesn't hold water.