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| Posted by: Messi Dec 9 2004, 12:40 PM |
| Posted: Mar 20 2004, 08:53 AM This morning, before I got out of bed, I began thinking about capital punishment. Is it right to kill someone for a wicked crime against society? If a small group of people, say in the old west, had a trial for a man and he was convicted of murder. Call it lynching or whatever, but suppose a group of local men took him out and hung him. Wrong? Or right? Now, lets suppose a larger group convicted him and put him to death by public hanging, all legal. Right or wrong? Suppose the State convicted him and according to state law, he was hung. The state has several millions of people and the majority wanted the death penalty law for murder. Right or wrong? Lets now, suppose a whole nation has a law demanding the death penalty for murder. Lets say the nation consists of 100,000,000 people. The majority of those millions want a death penalty. Do they have the right to do so, or not? While many other nations of people do not want the death penalty for murder. Do that one group of people have the right or not? For instance, some states have the death penalty. Some do not. Some nations have the death penalty, some do not. Example: in Europe most nations there do not have the death penalty while the U.S. does. Which is wrong and which is right? Does a continent have the right to demand the death penalty? Why is it right for some people to kill murders and it is wrong for others to do so? Would it be right if a state said it was right? Would it be right if a nation said it was right? Would it be right if a continent said it was right? Or, would it only be right if the whole world said it was right? How many people does it take to make capital punishment right? If it is wrong for some groups of people, can it be right for other groups of people? Is right, always right? Is wrong, always wrong? Is the death penalty absolutely pure? Or, is the death penalty absolutely purely wrong? Which is absolutely pure? Bill |