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The fact I think baby rapists and the like deserve a death sentence does not in any way indicate I want to be there to see it carried out, nor have I ever said anything like that.
Of course it doesn't you fucking stupid coward. That is the entire point - which you seem to be in denial about - that I am not condemning you, as a person, a person who exists as a subject that is, for having feelings of murderous intention, but rather for your total unwillingness to make those feelings real to you. You are a coward, a sniveling, little, obsequious, weasel of a coward. who is so self-emasculatory that he refuses to even consider the potential consequences of his beliefs in the society of which he is a microcosm.
The ethical condemnation remains the same. Murder is always wrong, and your murder of an inmate on death row is just as wrong as the inmates was, but if you are going to murder someone, you could have the respect for the person you are murdering, as well as the respect for yourself to own your actions and ideas as your own, to do it yourself, instead of pretending like you can bury your head in the sand and hide from your impotence.
You are a craven and fearful, milquetoast, sir. You disrespect yourself, the condemned, and all of society, on top of being ethically abhorrent.
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And again, in case you missed it, most of your comrades agreed with me so your comments are aimed at them too.
Yup, everyone but belkira and samira and anna iirc
But aside from them even, I like most of my "comrades" because most of them are quite intelligent and rational. You are not. You don't seem to understand -any- of the positions being offered to you, and you don't seem to understand that, on a forum, as the OP, you don't get to dictate the bounds of the argument. People may introduce new ideas, at which point we must come to a decision on your original point.
I have, and I think most people have. I understand it; it's idiotic.
At that point, when a discussion morphs into a new topic, you can roll with it, or you can scream futility into the night for control over the discourse, acting in denial, fooling yourself into believing that they just don't get it, that they should have been more polite, that you weren't being inciteful (in a place where that is valued,) and dragging out every possibly ounce of dignity from your soul until you remain on the ground, a shallow husk of a man. You've chosen the latter. It's disgusting.
Edited, Nov 4th 2009 6:04pm by Pensive