Of course when you haven't written for a while you tend to go off topic as I did in the last post, but that's the game we play.
Life isn't fair. Is it safe to assume we have established this fact in our individual lives? Of course it all depends on your point of view. Sometimes we say life isn't fair because we aren't getting our own way [how selfish of us], but sometimes we are more than right.
Is it fair that murderers and criminals who have made people suffer and have killed are able to walk free because they say their human rights are being compromised? After they have killed and removed human rights from so many people. The world MUST be in a dire state when that happens, when justice has to blindly follow a set of rules, which any person in the street can see are wrong. When these murders have removed their victims human rights should they not have theirs removed also? is it right that serial killers with no regret are given bail after 15-20 years? Should they not be put to death?
Of course some people would say that killing a killer only brings you down to their level. But to kill someone, who would murder over and over again and who sees nothing wrong with it, is that not a service to the Country, for the protection of the masses? I strongly think it is. And to me a bit of rope and a wooden cross frame MUST be a hell of a lot cheaper for the government than keeping them alive.
We are in an economic crisis and that is my idea for saving some money which the Government can use for the people affected.
I see your point about the cost-effectiveness of capital punishment, and indeed the case that often it is terribly unfair that murderers with no remorse do escape punishment. However, at the end of the day, capital punishment is not a question of cost-effectiveness, but of ethics, and the day when it becomes about cost is the day that humanity has lost its soul. Yes a man who takes another man's life is wrong to do so - such a life is God's alone to take - but is it any less wrong to take his life in return? We can never predict what will occur to such a man while in prison - he may see the error of his ways, he may devote his life to a noble cause, perhaps even to Christianity - such a man may rise above his sins to become one of the greatest people on earth. Do we have the right to take away such potential? Do we have the right to take away something God-given? The old philosophy of an eye-for-an-eye is morally stunted, and shows no concept of forgiveness. All we have the right to do is ensure that such a person is unable to do anyone any harm, and provide as much opportunity for reform as is possible. It seems at first rather a weak solution, but morally it is the strongest, most daring solution.
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