[dheretic]

I'm not arguing with myself. I agree with Locke. You forfeit a right only based on the severity of the offense. The only legitimate case is murder where you have essentially signed your own death warrant. Some rights can never be prohibited. The right of freedom of belief is one of them. The state never has a legitimate power to force you to believe one way or another. Nor does it have the right to sodomize you every day in prison. See that's the problem with people like you, your type of state government could simply prohibit the prosecution of police officers that shove a broom handle up a guy's ass trying to get a confession out of him the way that some of NYC's finest did a while back. But oh yeah, it's the state's right to be able to allow its enforcers to sodomize people if it chooses to. Rights only exist where the state finds them convenient. Afterall, that is the position you've taken.

[Texasforever]

See that's the problem with people like you, your type of state government could simply prohibit the prosecution of police officers that shove a broom handle up a guy's ass trying to get a confession out of him the way that some of NYC's finest did a while back

That is a bad thing?