see https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
Prisons don’t prevent or cure violent crime - yes, because that is beyond their remit. The purpose of prisons is to punish criminals who commit serious crime.
Seeing as there will always be a minority of people who commit serious crime, if we abolish prisons we must think of another way to punish them.
see https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
Then concentrate on programmes that prevent violent crime happening in the first place - well, that is the claim but whatever programs are started after prison abolishment, there will still be people who commit murder/rape/etc.
They would still need to be punished.
How?
see https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
Slim, Slim, Slim, lol …
Just read your link.
It's pretty much standard leftist fare - 'prisons are bad, prisons only punish ethnic minorities and pot-smokers, the rich get away with it', blah blah blah.
The author of the article doesn't address this simple question: if we abolish prisons and someone commits a serious crime - rape, murder, terrorism, etc. - how should society punish that person?
No mention of an alternative punishment.
You could free all BAME prisoners, free all pot-smokers in jail, free all mentally-ill prisoners … and some people will still be bad enough to commit murder/rape/etc.
When someone commits a serious crime like murder, that person must be punished. The death penalty was abolished in Britain with the insistence that life would mean life. If you abolish prisons, how will serious criminals be punished?
are you ready to celebrate??
it’s such a big holiday that the local electric company will be closed in order to celebrate.
only emergencies will be dealt with on that day.. what are you doing for the holiday?.
I think celebrating the emancipation of slaves is a good thing for Americans to do.
It certainly beats all the crappy SJW talk of reparations and sh1t like that. #NoReparations
i was told but can not find anything concrete that the cult gb directs cult members to burn old cult books and literature.
is this true.
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The WTS does everything but burn books.
The GB: "We are God's one true organisation on Earth. We give people The Truth. But our truth has a time limit on it. Only apostates read and quote from our older literature."
Yeah, whatever you say crazy guy …
the same governing style:.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/15/fears-mullets-and-skinny-jeans-will-tear-north-korea-down-like-a-damp-wall-14587354/.
I gotta say, I'm glad Kim Jong-Il has banned the mullet, lol.
*sips vodka* Send him to gulag
see https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
The problem with any punishment is, that callous criminals will commit murder, worse crimes, to keep hiding their identity, escape punishment - ok, but as you say, 'any punishment', criminals would also act that way to try and escape a prison sentence.
So I don't know why this would make jail time better than death.
see https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
Atheists are more likely to be humanists than theists - this is highly debatable, lol.
(See Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.)
Which group was key to ending slavery in the US? Christians, from what I remember.
It wasn't the Muslims, the atheists, the tribal religionists which ended slavery, was it ...
honda vfr 750.
The first and only time I went over 120mph I was in my BMW 316i.
It was a nice little car, my baby beemer.
see https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/16/poll-atheists-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-death-penalty-most-christians-favor-it/ .
i am an atheist and i disapprove of the death penalty.
i remember michael dukakis, when he was a usa presidential candidate, saying i he was opposed to the death penalty - even for rapists and murderers.
I think the death penalty should be kept - or reinstated in the case of the UK - so that the worst criminals are eliminated from society.
Their is a myth going around that prison sentences are to rehabilitate the criminal. This is false - sentences are there as a punishment for serious crime.
Some people who commit very serious crimes are beyond rehabilitation, and deserve to be put to death (e.g. Peter Sutcliffe aka the Yorkshire Ripper).
Of course, having the death penalty on the books can help a criminal see sense and confess in exchange for a life sentence. This is another reason to keep it/reinstate it.
