To: OldEagle
I all respect I think the real debate is that it is NOT a given. Putting aside the racialist part of it there is an interesting question underlying can a truly repentant man do more good for society as something else than a corpse?
I honestly think it a valid philosophical question, completely aside form the guy getting the needle. Would some 'straight talk' from turn even one more punk away from the path than just offing him as ans example would?
I am not wise enough to know; and don't really care if he lives. If there are riots then the ONLY appropriate response is, and always has been - one rioter one bullet.
49 posted on
11/26/2005 10:57:51 AM PST by
RedStateRocker
(Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6)
To: RedStateRocker
"If you can't do the time don't do the crime" Robert Blake in another life.
I get your point. I am nothing like the person I was forty years ago. However being reformed isn't a free pass.
The question isn't so much could he do more good. Anybody theoretically could, so why punish any crime?
106 posted on
11/26/2005 5:28:24 PM PST by
OldEagle
(May you live long enough to hear the legends of your own adventures.)
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