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Originally Posted by danny27
Well no, i dont mean for mine or anybody elses satisfaction. I meant so that these cretins can feel what its like to feel physical pain, which is similar to what the victims family feel emotionally. Im not a sadist or anything, i just think that these thugs deserve a punishment thats fitting to their crimes.
And eye for an eye
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The "eye for an eye" thing doesn't work ... and it is a distortion of a belief which also gives us "thou shalt not kill" and "turn the other cheek" (not that I've ever been in favor of cheek turning; but then again, I'm not much into eye gouging either). Capital and corporal punishment pander to a nasty side of human nature: the side that sold out the collosium on game night, that drew the crowds to Tyburn for the hangings, that filled, and still fills the ranks of death squads.