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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: March 14, 2015, 12:56:23 PM »

All right, guys. We've only got enough left for one more, so let's make this one count. We need to be very careful in choosing who to kill because we're probably not going to be able to kill any more people for a while.
Texas can always go back to the lynch mob if they get impatient.  In many ways it's a superior form of capital punishment as it is quick, leaving the person it is applied to little time to bewail their fate.  The only real problem with it is that is had a higher rate of false positives, which is what caused it to fall into disfavor before.
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« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2015, 07:05:59 AM »
« Edited: March 15, 2015, 02:38:36 PM by True Federalist »

It is odd tho that companies who feel human life is so sacred they will not allow their drugs to not be used for executions don't go to the same level of effort to prevent them from being used for euthanasia.
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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2015, 02:53:07 PM »

It is odd tho that companies who feel human life is so sacred they will not allow their drugs to not be used for executions don't go to the same level of effort to prevent them from being used for euthanasia.

I have rarely seen a post so bafflingly alien to any sort of logic.
Maybe the typo I corrected will resolve your bafflement, but I doubt it.  Conversely, I fail to see how anyone who is so opposed to the death penalty that they would consider it akin to murder would support euthanasia,  Life is life.  Both capital punishment and euthanasia are based upon the proposition that life is not so precious that it should never be ended.
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« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2015, 03:39:20 PM »

It is odd tho that companies who feel human life is so sacred they will not allow their drugs to not be used for executions don't go to the same level of effort to prevent them from being used for euthanasia.

I have rarely seen a post so bafflingly alien to any sort of logic.
Maybe the typo I corrected will resolve your bafflement, but I doubt it.  Conversely, I fail to see how anyone who is so opposed to the death penalty that they would consider it akin to murder would support euthanasia,  Life is life.  Both capital punishment and euthanasia are based upon the proposition that life is not so precious that it should never be ended.

many people place a lot of value on the variable of consent.  this isn't so complicated that it should escape your mind.
It doesn't, but one could argue that the condemned gave their consent when they did their crime.  Alternatively, since only murder is a capital crime in the US these days, one can point out that their victims certainly didn't consent to the loss of their life, so why should the consent of those who took the life of another be of greater importance than that of their victims?  Thirdly, the entire penal system involves the deprivation of personal rights of the convicted. Extreme crimes warrant extreme deprivation.  I can readily see one not accepting the results of the logic above, yet there is a logic.

Too many people operate under the mistaken presumption that anything that is logical must be good and vice versa.  There does tend to be a correlation between those who operate under that presumption and those who think there is a correlation between constitutional and good.
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« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2015, 06:52:46 PM »

There does tend to be a correlation between those who operate under that presumption and those who think there is a correlation between constitutional and good.

which do you like better: "constitutional" or "good"?

I prefer good in the abstract, but good is often subjective while constitutional is ideally objective.  So I want legislatures to deal with "good" and courts to deal with "constitutional" while giving a high degree of deference to the legislatures.
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