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  Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it

  by Disillusioned JW in

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  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.

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  It is better to prevent a violent crime in the first place than it is to punish it after it has occurred - I actually agree with you this. But, again, some people will always commit serious crime. That's reality, I'm afraid.

  The countries with fewest people in prison are the countries with the lowest rates of violent crime - this may be true. But violent crime still needs to be punished because it can't be prevent entirely.

  Prisons don’t prevent violent crime they make the problem worse - I agree they don't prevent crime … not sure they make the problem worse. Maybe when offenders get out of prison they are likely to reoffend. Perhaps this is a problem with the way prisons are run, rather than prisons failing as a concept. And, of course, if the really serious criminals were locked up for life they wouldn't reoffend at all.

  btw I think that’s me out of posts for today (I only get 5) listen to the podcast on abolition - sorry, Slim, today I don't feel up to wading though anything put out by Novara Media, lol.
  
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  Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  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.

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  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.
  
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  Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  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.

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  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?
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  Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  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.

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  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?
  
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  Juneteenth

  by minimus in

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  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?.

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  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
  
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  Does the GB direct cult members to burn old books?

  by mickbobcat in

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  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 …
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  GB and North Korea same opinion about outfit style!

  by Gorb in

  1. jw
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  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/.

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  I gotta say, I'm glad Kim Jong-Il has banned the mullet, lol.

  

  *sips vodka* Send him to gulag
  
  
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  Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  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.

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  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.

  
  
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  Poll: Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty, but most Christians favor it

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  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.

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  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 ...
  
  
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  The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,

  by Sea Breeze in

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  honda vfr 750.

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  The first and only time I went over 120mph I was in my BMW 316i.

  It was a nice little car, my baby beemer.