CAPITAL PUNISHMENT! (Just for Kahl)

[kahljorn]

No matter how bad you have it someone somewhere has it worse and isnt killing people over it. Society may have shat on you. Society may not be your friend. That doesnt make it ok to kill someone.

unless its society killing people, right? "No matter how bad you have it someone somewhere has it worse and isn't killing people over it. Some criminal may have shat on you. Some criminal may not be your friend. That doesn't make it ok to kill someone."

Is that not torture?

No.

Rapists regularly get raped in prison and its probably fitting.

Uhh not necessarily. So it would be okay on your watch for prison guards to rape rapists? or like to cruelly and unusually punish people who cruelly and unusually punish? Or refuse the right to counsel to those who refuse others the right to counsel?
etc.

Thieves, if they get caught, have to pay back damages.

they take back what they stole. However, when they execute somebody they aren't taking back anything, but destroying something else.

The rest of that stuff is just a slippery slope argument that is basically crap.

It's not a slippery slope ;/

Once you violate someone elses right to live you have committed a VERY heinous crime that deserves a VERY heinous punishment.

So why does the very heinous punishment necessarily mean death? why can't it be life in prison without possibility of parole? Death really isn't even a punishment if you think about it.
And what about when you rape a bunch of little kids but don't kill them? They haven't violated anybody else's right to life, so does that mean they shouldn't be executed?