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NeedToUseYou -> RE: The Philosophy of Liberty (10/18/2008 7:14:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol
Money is meaningless when it comes to the cost of the death penalty. The cost of barbarism is irrelevant.
Well, I thought you were also meaning injustice in a more general level as well, like those injustices that lead people into such situations that greatly enhance their odds to even be in that situation. As in everything else, and including the death part.
It's all money. Only the poor rob convenience stores or steal car stereos that eventually lead to violent confrontations. Most street drug peddlers are poor or were poor before embracing illegal acts.
Anyway, I don't think the government should have the right to kill anymore either, I did even a couple years ago, but my distrust of government, and their repeated showings over the years, not to be capable of handling such power, leads me against it.
But even so I'd still say a life of desperate poverty and all that implies is far worse than death, at least I'd select death first.
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