From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 01:11:42 MST
Rafal wrote:
> ### I pay taxes, too. Will you let me opt out of paying the taxes going
> for the sustenance of murderers, or do you want to force me to pay
> for your moral convictions?
If there was a possibility on a tax sheet for you to opt out I would of
course not prevent you from doing so. I am no militant fighter for *any*
rights.
> ### How about me doing the killing? Will you interfere if I and a few
> buddies corner a lawfully convicted murderer, and blow his brains out?
> Will you try to kill me to save a convicted murderer?
> ### Good. I am not trying to convince you killing is good, merely to
> consider the practical consequences of your moral stance (especially the
> question of whether you should feel entitled to force me to finance your
> ethical views).
This leaves me speechless and I really feel sorry for this brutalization and
degradation (German:Verwahrlosung) of thinking. I hope you will never
be able to become a person of influence in your future demarchy. It is a
shabby (in German: schaebig) attitude to reduce an issue of life and death
to the almost insignificantly low share of your taxes to keep a murderer
alive. Everybody has to pay taxes and almost any citizen feels that some tax
shares would be better invested if..and if...and if...
But as the "just" killing of a murderer is common law in the USA your stance
only mirrors the dangerously revengeful state of mind of a paranoid,
belligerent and *proud* society, where supporters of peace are regarded
as luddite morons, paid by Islamic terrorists - as Mike Lorrey ran amok
recently.
In Germany for example it is social approval that there should be no death
penalty. There is no movement seriously trying to reestablish death penalty.
Of course there are occasional voices who vote for it especially when a
child was abused and murdered, but generally is is consensus not to execute
convicted murderers. Nobody seriously discusses the issue of reintroducing
capital punishment.
I must say I am really glad to live in a society where the sustenance of
convicted murderers fortunately is common law. I think this is a very
important step for people to learn, that the attitude of "an eye for an eye"
- even if it is comprehensible in the face of a terrible crime - belongs to
mythical ages and does not fit into a modern, enlightend society.
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