From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Nov 24 2002 - 14:02:50 MST
--- Avatar Polymorph <avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com> wrote:
> HOW ONE IMMORTALIST REGARDS THE DEATH PENALTY
>
> Never a day passes when I don't give thanks to the nodal stem that I
> live in a country whose States have all abolished the death penalty
> (Australia) and a world in which Europe and the non-US Anglo-Celtic
> colonies (Australia, Canada, New Zealand) have all also done away
> with it.
Considering that both Britain and Australia have higher crime rates
than the US, I wouldn't gloat.
>
> Never a day passes when I don't give especially thanks - as a member
> of the Immortality Institute - for Australia having abolished the
> death penalty.
On the contrary, I am entirely uninterested in spending eternity in the
company of criminals, thieves, rapists, thugs, and murderers who might
be promised immortality by Pollyannists like yourself. If this is the
sort of immortal future you want to promote, count me out.
>
> Never a day passes when I don't think of forgiving murderers facing
> the death penalty.
Never a day passes when I don't think that the world would be a better,
and more peaceful, place if more people had the freedom to protect
themselves and their loved ones with deadly force.
>
> Never a day passes when I don't think of forgiving the individuals in
> the US who carry out murder in the name of the state and those
> individuals in the US who voted for capital punishment.
I don't want your forgiveness, I don't need your forgiveness, for I've
done nothing wrong. Save your forgiveness for those who are truly
murderous, those who initate force against innocents and confiscate
their rights to live. But then YOU have no right to do so. Forgiveness
is reserved for those who are trespassed against. I and the many other
family members and friends of murder victims have the power to forgive.
You don't.
>
> Never a day passes when I don't think of fair systems of protective
> shielding for those potential victims of non-consensual force that
> face this negative thing: I try to think systematically and
> laterally.
How about thinking literally and logically? Irrational thinking can
easily be systematized.
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