posted on May 10, 2002 01:57:47 PM new
Poor Helen: ROFLMAO
>>Stusi said:People change their mind every day about abortion, religious beliefs etc. due to less than traumatic events. Oh, nevermind. There is sometimes very little intellect on this board. I guess that is why the "peeps" threads got so many posts. nycyn- get the fire extinguisher.<<
Well, gee, er, um, maybe I would if I could understand what you said.
It's awfy tough being of mere average intelligence. Please go easy on us.
posted on May 10, 2002 02:27:14 PM new
Kraft- thanks for getting what so many seem unable to grasp because they get hung up in semantics, proof, and other things that have little to do with such questions. Some have already changed their minds permanently. And yes, some probably changed it back as is the law of probability.
posted on May 10, 2002 08:07:39 PM new
>>I hope that you know what to do with that fire extinguisher.<<
Jesus I hope I'm not that difficult anymore. Probably go to my grave wondering.
Re: the topic. My 9-11 instinct was help in a way where I could utilize my skills. I had no knee-jerk retaliatory reaction. Well maybe with one exception: When we heard Bush was coming to Ground Zero the next day the universal repsonse was Awwww Maaaan--Stay Home. We were too busy and not in the mood for the mucky mucks. I was amused by the collective response: GO BACK TO YOUR BUNKER AND GET OUT OF OUR WAY!
Death Penalty in general? I think they should just take repeat sex offenders out. They just seem untreatable.
And then there is the babies that should be left in the woods to die: I once observed a 10 year old with -0 months mental age (not even a sucking reflex) doing no more than slowing growing longer on a hospital bed in the family living room. He received every service, including "home instruction" ( a teacher sent to the home to tutor a few times a week.) She would either switch the light on and off, or turn on the radio, "to stimulate him." His guardian grandmother sat at the kitchen table drinking while all the assorted specialists came at went courtesy of the taxpayers.
But who wants to make the call who should live and who should die, should we then wind up in another Hitler (et al) type situation.
posted on May 10, 2002 09:37:57 PM new
I do not believe in the Death Penalty, or in fact, any penalty involving the concept of "punishment." The Death Penalty is like the knotted rope that bars a door: it's there to keep the honest people honest. For someone enraged and irrational, the death Penalty is not even thought of. So, it is not a deterient as Pro-Penalty supporters claim. It is "An Eye For An Eye", only now everyone involved in the crime is dead.
What I support is a system that tries to determine the likelihood of the person to be dangerous to themself or to society. Those who are so mentally out of touch with reality and kill indiscriminanetly ought to be locked up: we as a society must support their incarceration, even if it is a life-long condition.
