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To: ilovesarah2012

By that argument taxes, affirmative action and alien amnesty are actions if the people. I well understand the arguments in favor of capital punishment but I simply offered what I see as a compelling argument against it. As I said, I’m split on the question. Life is a gift and I’m not sure the very fallible state should be empowered to take it away from anyone. Just a thought.


19 posted on 04/01/2014 5:03:54 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: muir_redwoods; ilovesarah2012
By that argument taxes, affirmative action and alien amnesty are actions if the people.

Well, yeah, kind of. You can pretty much trace all of that back to the people who did or didn't cast votes one way or the other. One faction carried the vote, and others didn't. On the matter of taxes, in my community we get to vote directly on a lot of them. Sometimes my side carries the vote, sometimes not.

Life is a gift and I’m not sure the very fallible state should be empowered to take it away from anyone.

Should fallible people have that power? Should fallible people have the right to chose cellmates?

37 posted on 04/01/2014 8:19:44 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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