Not all incarcerated persons deserve the death penalty and are illegals in this country. Most people view inmates as non-human and that is contrary to all that we Christians and Americans should stand for. Don’t you personally know someone who has had problems and who has been locked up at one time or another? Most of us do.
How we view and treat our prisoners reflects our level of humanity in so many ways. I’m sorry for your friend’s situation, but that “incarcerated” person deserves to live just as much as your friend. It is all a matter of perspective. 80% of inmates will serve their time and come out of prison. How humanly they are treated in prison is directly proportional to how they will live out here — among the rest of us “perfect people”.
“Don’t you personally know someone who has had problems and who has been locked up at one time or another? Most of us do.”
Yes, I do. However, I see no problem with putting the welfare and well being of military/former military before felons. People who stood in my stead to die deserve more consideration than someone who stands against my freedoms and rights.
From an earlier post I made:
Looking at the cost for the bill spread over the numbers:
$1,600,000,000,000 for (up to) 11,000,000 American citizens who are uninsured; the rest are not citizens.
These numbers compute to $145,455 per person, or $14,545 per year over 10 years, following the logic that this is what will be ‘saved.’ This is health care worth $1212.09 per person per month for the 11 million US citizens.
Do you have that much to spare? I don’t.
For this, MRIs are out, antibiotics are ‘controlled’ or cut back, and who knows what else. Don’t you dare be elderly or a conservative..........