Aunty Kreist wrote:
I can't see the original post, but what the hell...
> "John Fields" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:37:02 GMT, "Pip" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> Hunh. I don't care if he lives or dies. He is guilty. Then again
>>> lots of guilty people go free, and then, lots of innocent people go
>>> to the chair. The only way you can cure that is to abolish the
>>> death penalty. I oppose the death penalty because of its varying
>>> application from state to state and judge to judge.
>>
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>> If you oppose the death penalty it shouldn't be be because of the way
>> it's capriciously enforced by man, it should be because a life which
>> you didn't create shouldn't be yours to take.
Ahmmm. Someone who unjustifiable takes a life should have his life
taken, imo. This is because life is *so* precious, it should never be
taken without good reason. Good reasons are to prevent or punish someone
from taking a life unjustifiable. The *only* reason I am against the
death penalty is because one must have absolute proof that the person
executed is guilty. Killing an innocent person is not an option in this
type of situation imo.
So, I absolutely believe that cold blooded killers should be executed in
principle, but must not be, due the lack of absolute proof of guilt.
>> ---
>
> Why John, how very white of you to inform Pip what her reasons and
> emotions should be.
>
>
>>> The law declaring the fetus a legal person disturbs me a great deal.
>>
>> ---
>> It shouldn't. From the moment of conception, when the two foreign
>> strands of DNA wrap around each other and form something that was
>> never there before, given time and lack of hate, a new human will
>> join us.
Complete nonsense. We only need you be concerned about a "life" after it
has first become *conscious*. Before something becomes conscious it is
no more then a carrot. What *makes* a life, that needs consideration for
its *own* sake, is a brain. Period.
>> ---
>
> Sure it isn't a malignant tumor? And still being so considerate,
> telling people what should and shouldn't disturb them. That's quite
> an ego you have there! I'm sure people will be polite, and not laugh
> at you *too* loudly.
>
>
>>> Its just one step to declaring abortion murder.
>>
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>> Abortion _is_ murder.
>
> That is opinion, not fact.
I suppose this depends on the definition of "murder". Is it a legal one,
or one what we personally consider is murder. For me, certainly before
about 3 months there are simply no significant neuron connections in a
brain to make a conscious mind, so until that time, the foetus is no
more than a carrot.
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