07-03-2018, 02:32 PM
(07-03-2018, 02:29 PM)michaelsean Wrote: But you were talking about it not being a deterrent. That's the reason it doesn't qualify.
Being a deterrent is not the only way to insure domestic tranquility. That can be insured with removal from society, which can be resolved with imprisonment the same as execution. So perhaps I should have been more specific in my post, but I thought I had gotten wordy enough.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR