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TJ in Oregon
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Junior Chimp
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« on: September 08, 2012, 10:41:01 PM »

I will advocate for this from retirement if the Honorable PPT will grant me a response be it a few hours beyond the expired time limit.

Senators,

This body has spent countless threads (and hours) discussing whether or not conscription should be banned by our constitution even though it is not in force. I would like to initiate a discussion for this body (and hopefully the Atlasian public) to consider: putting into our constitution a ban on a much more drastic use of government against an individual, capital punishment, even though like conscription it is not in force in Atlasia at this time.

First, capital punishment is more costly to the government because it requires a vast number of appeals and litigation that life imprisonment does not lead to. The argument that it somehow saves money just isn't true.

Capital punishment where implemented has not been shown to be a crime deterrent. Rarely if ever does a man decide not to murder someone because he fears lethal injection more than life imprisonment. It acts as an instrument of revenge against a criminal, be him a murder or not is still a person, to satisfy a thirst for vengence. It does not protect a community against violence, rather it increases the violence by killing someone else. If the government can take a man's life in a civilian court where society could be protected as well with him behind bars, what can it not take? Of all the injustices in our world, a lack of respect for life, and a lack of a right to life in our constitution, is the greatest. The largest violation against life in our nation today is the multitude of legal abortions done daily; however, we are so beholden to our political divisons that no constitutional protection of life in a general sense can be achieved. But that does not mean we cannot reach across our lines to work to foster a culture of life in whatever small means we can agree upon. Building an unlikely consensus is the lifeblood of a competent political culture and I believe that we are no so starkly divided that agreement on this amendment cannot be achieved.

I believe this is a measure that can and should be passed in this by our senate and by the Atlasian public.

Thank you for your time and consideration as I begin my ride off into the sunset of retirement from the Senate.
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