It's a peace loving religion, 'cept for the 5,000 women killed annually

The idea that the whole world is going to produce a 1970s Coke commercial or sing Kumbayah is a bit unrealistic.

Sin is sin. Evil is evil.  We're trying to micromanage a problem here, instead of rooting out people who call for the destruction of nations.

 

The money thing is a different front on this war. You have to eliminate the threat to instability. You cannot have a neighborhood where the thinking concerns eliiminating nations.

Using the abortion clinic bombings as an example, we have laws to jail and potentially put to death mass murderers. It is seen as a deterrent. Does killing one stop it from happening? No, but it sends a message to the perpetrator. Eliminate him or her and we can focus on a discourse of looking at the overall problems and thinking behind the problems.

 

Sorry, but the death penalty really isn't a deterrent, and believe me buddy, I'm pro-death penalty. But the reason for it is it's, in my mind, a just punishment for the crime. But deterrent? Hardly.

 

It deters that guy from ever doing it again.

 

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Yes, that's exactly the sort of deterrent people talk about when they mention the death penalty. It's more of a solution than a deterrent.

 

Basically, is it really a statement to society? First and foremost, it should be a consequence of an action. Something that in so many ways, we as a society have chosen to ignore. Embrace it, and it becomes a lesson. But that's the problem. We're conditioned not to think there's consequences for most anything.

 

Yes, state-sanctioned murder shows a healthy respect for human life.

 

Oh.

So state-sponsored free cable and health care for a murderer while victims lose homes due to the breadwinner being eight feet under is a more preferred method.

 

Judge not, etc., etc., etc.

 

What's insane is to not do anything about what's happening RIGHT NOW just because bad things happened in the past. When there are Crusades, pogroms, genocides and wars in the name of religion, it should have been stopped then. I wasn't there and neither was anyone else, so we can't undo history. What we can do is try to put a stop to this particular brand of madness and murder, or at least defend ourselves, or quit labeling people as racist just because we don't like the idea of other people flying planes into buildings or walking into Tel Aviv wedding receptions with bombs strapped on them.

 

What would you recommend -- invading Iraq?

 

I'd love for terrorism to cease -- though whether it does or not has no bearing on you being a racist.