Why is it inhumane

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(03-18-2016, 09:28 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I do not see sin in being in favor of the death penalty. Unfortunately man's judgement against man is necessary and temporary. Folks will argue "A Christian cannot be in favor of the death penalty". That is silly, by that logic a Christian could not be in favor of any laws that form society. Why is it "more Christian to favor life imprisonment over capital punishment?  

Now the vengeance part is a sin; but not one of us is perfect and we all sin.

It is not silly at all.  If you religion tells you all life is sacred then you don't want to kill anyone for any reason.  Period.  Abortion, war, death penalty...all should be what you are against.  It is not god's law vs man's law.  It is what you believe based on your religion.

(03-18-2016, 10:53 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Why punish them by locking them up their whole life if they didn't do it? 



What should we do if someone dies in prison and it is later discovered they didn't do it? 

Same thing we do now.  Issue an "apology" and probably end up giving money to the survivors.  But we didn't kill another human being for some misguided attempt at "justice".

(03-19-2016, 12:18 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: We need to bring back the asylums.  People that would elect to boil a child, need to be in an asylum.

We definitely need to reinvest in the mental health fields.  Somewhere along the lines (the 80's) we stopped caring about it.  But no privately owned ones please without TREMENDOUS oversight.  To easy to make a problem "go away" if you know the right person to have the problem locked up for being "crazy".

(03-19-2016, 02:34 AM)Bilbo Saggins Wrote: When I look at punitive situations like this I think of the cost vs. benefit.  Is there any value that anyone gets out of this woman suffering?  What is the point of imprisoning/killing/boiling her?  Is it to stop her activity, or is it meant to equalize some sort of fictitious playing field?  Would boiling her alive "send a message" to other people crazy enough to boil a child alive?  I just don't see how anyone gains anything of value by having this woman suffer.  The point of her punishment should be to ensure that she never does anything to harm innocent people again.

I get you on the capital punishment thing.  The ethics of whether killing someone outright is more humane than a lifetime of incarceration is a whole other ball of wax.  Not sure that I get the "sin" part though.  It's not a sin to think about, is it?(I seriously don't know.  My religion is skepticism)


We actually pay people in the CIA to do this.  I believe that they probably do Abu Ghraib and the Barney song on repeat type of stuff waaaaay more often than most people would care to know.  

Agree.  It is just our human sense of wanting vengeance.  It is a base instinct that we have no grown out of yet as a species.