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Subject: Re: The Death Penalty

Author:
JCayan

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Date Posted: 14:59:52 06/12/01 Tue
In reply to: Wyldchilde 's message, "Re: The Death Penalty" on 14:05:38 06/12/01 Tue

>
>>Vivien:
>>I do not attack the right to punish, and any legal
>>system will suffer miscarriages of justice from time
>>to time. I attack the use of the death penalty because
>>of the atrocity it clearly is. Better to release a
>>man/woman wrongly convicted after 10 years, than to
>>murder someone who might be innocent, or subject ANY
>>human being to such inhumane treatment. Human beings
>>are not dogs to be put down in order to satisfy a
>>blood lust. Responding to barbarism with another act
>>of barbarism is not the hallmark of an advanced and
>>civilised society.
>>
>>
>>Wyld�s immediate response:
>>Again you call me bloodthirsty. So now I will call you
>>irrational. You assume that anyone who doesn't agree
>>with you must fit into this limited sterotype. So of
>>course anyone who believes in the death penalty must
>>be bloodthirsty.
>>
>>May I comment, that never once did Vivien call Wyld,
>>bloodthirsty. She was speaking of the "death penalty"
>>act itself and how she feels it doesn't fit into a
>>civilized society.
>
>She also assumed it was simply motivated by bloodlust.
>A point I had been trying to contradict and points she
>was trying to ignore. I will point you to the post
>above it. I said that AFTER I first tried to explain
>it in what I was hoping would be a calmer fashion.
>
>Then yours, and Wylde's, lack of intelligence only
>serves to confirm MY opinion on the death penalty. *G*
>
>You are the weakest link,
>
>Goodbye!
>
>Now, how can I find that anything but insulting?

And did you and Anon not exchange barbs with Vivien prior to this last comment of hers?

The fact is that there was name calling, snide remarks and condesecending responses on all sides. So, don't come crying foul now, not after you were an active particpant in it. If you disagree fine, if you choose to sling mud at each other, again fine. But, once the horse is out of the gate you ride with it all the way and dismount like everyone else.

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