I mean, LOOK AT THOSE MONSTERS! Locking up human beings in cages for their entire lives! That's terrible. But alas, reasons exist. In this case, clearly, a person has committed the most horrific crime imaginable to us: killing of children. There's little reason to allow such a person to continue living.
Your "logic" is that of a child. "He smashed my art project so I get to smash his."
You really think it takes a God to recognize that murdering 77 people is wrong or that the perpetrator of such a heinous act must pay for his crimes?
The word "pay" means to execute a transaction in which both parties are happy that what they received is worth the same or more than what they lost. Do you think that these kids' parents are going to be a whole lot happier, living with the memory of this loss, just because the guy who killed them is also dead? Do you have kids? Would you happily sign a contract specifying that I am welcome to kill them, so long as you are then allowed to kill me?
This is the reasoning of cavemen. We've spent twelve thousand years trying to elevate ourselves above their level, but apparently some of us have a few thousand more to go before we get it right.
Do you have any concern for this man's victims?
His victims are
dead. What exactly do you plan to do that will make any difference to them? If you mean the second-order victims, the dead children's parents, well then surely some of them have your same Paleolithic attitude about vengeance and would like to see this guy killed. But there are a good many people who
do not feel that way, who show up at the trial of their loved one's killer and beg for his life to be spared because killing him won't do them or their children any good but it will sure add one more grieving mother to the world population.
You guys are so wrapped up in your own grief (which isn't real, you're just
imagining it), that you can't even stop and realize that other people have parents and children too, and they don't deserve to be treated this way just because you can't control your Inner Caveman.
No, he doesn't. His rights ended when he decided to violate the rights of others. And he didn't just violate their rights, he ended the lives of 77 innocent people. He took away all of their rights. He took away their right to life, their right to liberty, and their right to pursue happiness. He did this 77 times over. Yet you say he has as much right to live as anyone? On what basis?
All you're doing is yelling. You're not actually saying a damn thing except, "I'm really angry about this." I'm surprised you didn't put the whole thing in bold-face capitals. Now I see why you call yourself "mad." How about madashellanthonywayne?
There is no way he can ever pay back the damage he has inflicted . . . .
Yes. Including by dying.
. . . . and there is no reason to believe that he won't repeat his crime if ever given the chance.
At least you finally have a point with this guy. Mass murderers can probably not be rehabilitated, so we're trusting the enormously expensive government, which we cherish as freedom-loving people, to do its job of keeping the guy locked up. If we can't trust them to even do that, then we've got a much bigger problem than a few mass murderers.
Sure, in the Stone Age they didn't have jails because they hadn't invented buildings yet. So there was no practical way to keep a bad guy out of circulation, if you were fairly sure he was going to turn around and do it again. But we have better technology than they did.
The only reasonable and just course of action is to execute the scumbag.
Sure. In the Stone Age. Which I wonder is where you would rather be living since your attitude would be the norm and nobody would call you uncivilized because civilization hadn't been invented yet?
Or, to put it more succinctly: YES, HIS LIFE IF FORFEIT.
You both completely ignore the fact that almost everyone, even the most (in our eyes) despicable people, have family and (possibly) friends who love them. Not to mention their teachers, their priests, their coaches, everyone in their lives who tried to turn them into decent human beings and failed through no fault of their own.
What gives you the right to play god with these people, to bring such inconsolable grief into their lives? As I noted earlier, feuds are usually started by a son avenging the death of his father, and he doesn't give a flying fuck whether YOU, in your infinite godly wisdom, thought it was a justifiable death. How do you think your friends and family will feel when he succeeds in taking revenge on you? Just spend some time in the Middle East, where they're still killing each other for reasons so far back in time that many of them don't even understand them anymore. It's just vengeance for the most recent atrocity by the other side, who also doesn't quite know why they're fighting.
If a man is in prison, his children can visit him. Seeing his fate might help them choose a more righteous life when they grow up. But if you kill him, all they care about is that you're the motherfucker who killed their daddy. If "you" is an entire country of self-righteous jerks who think capital punishment is a civilized way to handle grief, then "you" is breeding a rather large underclass of very angry, grieving young people who won't have any respect for your so-called "civilization," but who WILL have been taught, by you, that violence is an acceptable way to resolve a dispute.
I would really rather not live in your country. I wouldn't feel safe with all those angry children strutting about.
