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tularetom

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4. Exactly my reaction

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 08:48 PM

Jan 2012

Common sense tells me that the death penalty makes no sense economically or socially, yet I can't help feeling some satisfaction when the perpetrator of a crime involving a young child gets fried.

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A Question as we move deeper into the 21st Century.... [View all] WCGreen Jan 2012 OP

I think its just becoming part of the post-services, post-industrial zero-jobs economy. leveymg Jan 2012 #1

Gandhi said: An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind... CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2012 #2

Exactly my reaction tularetom Jan 2012 #4

This is a good post and poses something rather profound as to TRY and understand just WHY BrendaBrick Jan 2012 #3

Justice you say? Plato probably wasn't the first to think about it... TreasonousBastard Jan 2012 #5

It's simply a vestige of a barbarian past. BrendaBrick Jan 2012 #6

Why on earth do we give our "government" the authority to kill us? elehhhhna Jan 2012 #7