From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 10:21:09 MST
Hubert wrote:
>
> 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...
### You are misunderstanding me if you think it's all about petty cash. I
object to the violation of my freedom, the brutal imposition of alien
ethics, inherent in the taxation for the purpose of sustaining murderers.
The reason why I mentioned money in the first place was a conciliatory
gesture - a willingness to forgo what I see as ethically well-grounded
extermination of creatures which by their own actions put themselves beyond
the ethics of cooperative reciprocal interactions that forms our society.
All I wanted in return for my compromise proposal was for the pro-lifers
like you to accept the financial responsibility for your actions.
And what do I get in return? Bin ich wirklich so schaebig? Verwahrlost?
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>
> 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.
### How are these voices silenced? "Pay your taxes and shut up"?
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>
> 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.
### I lived in Germany for some time. I chose America for many reasons, one
of them being a feeling that it is a much more just country, in many
dimensions. But "Jedem das Seine". It's so good to be able to choose where
you belong.
Rafal
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