this is something that i posted recently in a board entitled "how can someone be anti-death penalty." this was my response and it actually got me thinking a lot about it, so i guess i'd like to share it here if only so that i can remember it.
justice is supposed to be about objectiveness and impartiality but when we say "murder is wrong for any reason" and then kill someone just because they have killed another, it kind of goes to show that the senate and governments don't particularly care about the true meaning of justice, just to "get rid of the offender so we won't have to deal with him anymore."
how does that show people what is right and what is wrong, if we take all of the wrong-doers and commit the same crime on them as they have commited unto others? the government has no right to play god, and no one in this world has the right to decide if someone "deserves" to die based on the things they have done in their life except god himself.
my father was given two consecutive life sentences, and he was put up for the death penalty himself at one point (although he appealed it because they said the thing he had done to give him that sentence was unable to be proven and was only hearsay), and even i was completely baffled and confused and upset that he should deserve to die based on things he had done.
everyone was so baffled at ME, because of the way i reacted, they thought i should be happy and joyous but instead i was only sad and dismayed; even if he was my perpetrator. that doesn't give the government the right to tell him that he deserves to die. i thought it was kind of abhorrent that people would've even been surprised at my reaction, but i guess some people just want to get rid of the offenders and screw justice and mercy.
an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
i'm curious to see what opinions people have of my argument behind why i am against the death penalty! domokun
[ boys that always grow up better men than me and you ]
