blueonblue
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jollylescott said:blueinsa said:Smack dealers and smugglers.
Sorry but I just dont care.
Well you should care if you value living in a civilised society.
You should care if you reflect on your own life. Have you ever made a mistake as a teenager or a young adult? Did you ever do something that as a young man that you later regretted?
I know I did.
I am lucky because I live in a country that doesn't support state sanctioned murder. I am lucky because the mistakes that I made as a young man were forgiven by my society, my family and friends. I am lucky that I can now look back at those times and realise how stupid I was. But I got away with it because of my place of birth.
Some years ago when I was completing my Law degree I studied quite a few cases involving the death penalty in the United States. More often than not the person on death row was poor and African American. More often than not they were themselves victims of society, of poverty and desperation. On occasions they were innocent.
Since that time I have fundamentally opposed the death penalty. It serves no purpose. It doesn't deter crime. It on occasions kills innocent people. It doesn't recognise the possibility of rehabilitation and forgiveness.
Sometimes our civil society hangs by a thread. We are at times only a few steps away from barbarism. I guess it's part of the human condition. That's why opposition to cruel and barbaric practices like the death penalty need to be voiced and continued.
As Lincoln said it's about appealing to the better angels in all of us.
I feel sick today because of the actions of the Indonesian government. It's cruel and unnecessary. It punishes families for eternity.
By all means punish those that break the law. Keep them in jail for a long time.
But don't take their lives.
Dear god I hope your on a wind up and dont really believe all that guff, their "Mistakes" have in all probability killed people, so how about their families being punished for eternity because these c*nts wanted to make a fast buck ?.
So next time you look back on your mistakes, remember all the poor fuckers who do not have that option thanks to these money driven vermin, they did not care if people died.............I dont care now its their turn.