Just Another Political Post.

[Occhidiangela]

Cars are given air bags, seat belts, people are taught to drive safer, etc.  to prevent car crahes.  Same thing about getting sick, that's another possible "life is tough" example, that's what doctors, water treatment, etc. are for.  If someone could magically prevent car accidents, they probably would do it, unless it causesmore serious problems in the process.  Accidental death penalties are really easy to prevent, just drop death penalty.

As to 'poisoning the cat", the point of the poison is not to show the pests that poison is there, or to make them writhe in pain, the point is to keep the pests away.  If mousetraps work, than mousetraps get used for some of the poison.  If leaving less crumbs around keeps pests away, that's also useful as well.  In terms of death penalty, the most important question is whether it reduces crime.  If not, that's twelve or so preventable pointless deaths a year, not a good system.
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I don't care how you justify to yourself why you oppose the death penalty. I am for it. I have yet to find an argument worth a sh** that could come close to getting me to change my mind.

Capisce? We disagree on it, which is fine.

Occhi