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cbrer

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23. Are you coming at this?

Mon Jul 23, 2012, 06:23 PM

Jul 2012

From the angle of the death penalty is wrong? Or bullets are cheaper?

Anyways, IMHO, true evil exists in the world. If nothing is to be gained by studying the evil, it's morally acceptable (to me) to destroy the evil.

I would protect the good of the world, as well as those people and things I love, by personal action if it were to be required of me.

Not bloodthirsty. Just morally accountable. A person who eats meat is on the same moral level as the butcher.

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Could anyone here strap someone to a gurney and inject poison into their veins until they died? [View all] NNN0LHI Jul 2012 OP

We're not going to do it for you. Either you or The Voices will have to to it. nt Poll_Blind Jul 2012 #1

I can't even kill spiders. tridim Jul 2012 #2

and spiders are not always easy to catch!!! Skittles Jul 2012 #27

And those leetle TINY veins!!! cliffordu Jul 2012 #32

OMG STOP IT CLIFFORDU Skittles Jul 2012 #33

Are you picking up travel expenses? jberryhill Jul 2012 #3

I think for many of us the answer would be "that depends." pnwmom Jul 2012 #4

yup the answer would have to depends but the question was very broad. loli phabay Jul 2012 #6

Indeed, it is very situational ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #8

I'd like to think that I could if Bluerthanblue Jul 2012 #5

A Coup de Grâce is easy to dismiss until you are there ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #11

my family has been there, and Bluerthanblue Jul 2012 #41

Nothing insincere about your posts, it a very hard place to be ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #53

There are a couple of someones that I'd volunteer to do it to tularetom Jul 2012 #7

Yes. But I'd prefer to use my Time Machine as Jon Stewart suggests... msanthrope Jul 2012 #9

I could but wouldn't. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jul 2012 #10

well if it were someone old and suffering and clearly and consistently requested it... unblock Jul 2012 #12

What if the person was a serial killer pnwmom Jul 2012 #13

I commend you for thinking the unthinkable. randome Jul 2012 #17

Unthinkable crimes do happen. So I think the only truly honest answer to the OP, pnwmom Jul 2012 #21

would i have rage, absolutely. unblock Jul 2012 #46

What if you knew for a fact he was guilty, but he got off because his family pnwmom Jul 2012 #54

then killing him would make me a felon! hell no! unblock Jul 2012 #58

The Hangman at Home, by Carl Sandburg. . . Journeyman Jul 2012 #14

A Favorite Old Poem, Sir The Magistrate Jul 2012 #19

No Reasonable_Argument Jul 2012 #15

I oppose the death penalty but I could carry it out. cthulu2016 Jul 2012 #16

I worry more about serving on a jury. lapislzi Jul 2012 #56

No. I'm not a murderer. nt Comrade_McKenzie Jul 2012 #18

Assuming your question Summer Hathaway Jul 2012 #20

Yep.. if that person was a mass murderer. progressivebydesign Jul 2012 #22

Are you coming at this? cbrer Jul 2012 #23

Yes... given the proper circumstances. OneTenthofOnePercent Jul 2012 #24

I can't see it. Can't utterly rule it out but I don't see it. TheKentuckian Jul 2012 #25

Doctor Mengele I presume? lpbk2713 Jul 2012 #26

Working with special needs kids and adults HockeyMom Jul 2012 #28

No, never could see myself taking another life! teddy51 Jul 2012 #29

Yes. Serve The Servants Jul 2012 #30

Madame LeFarge I presume? longship Jul 2012 #31

No....I won't. .....Not even for the Joker BlueJazz Jul 2012 #34

How does it pay? JVS Jul 2012 #35

I can't even kill a roach malaise Jul 2012 #36

Given the right circumstances, absolutely. cliffordu Jul 2012 #37

Especially if you were Mr. or Mrs. Klass. pnwmom Jul 2012 #38

Circumstances vary NNN0LHI Jul 2012 #44

I won't tolerate cruelty to animals at all. cliffordu Jul 2012 #47

We had a problem here in Illinois NNN0LHI Jul 2012 #64

My problem is not with the death penalty, but the way it is used Va Lefty Jul 2012 #39

Does it come with Dental? Edweird Jul 2012 #40

No nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #42

public executions? NNN0LHI Jul 2012 #48

The history of the death penalty is clear nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #49

I do that sort of thing. Just not with people. kestrel91316 Jul 2012 #43

No, a guillotine on the other hand IowaRevolutionary Jul 2012 #45

It depends. probably yes in the right circumstance. eom yawnmaster Jul 2012 #50

If that person had killed a member of my family, I could do it. n/t RebelOne Jul 2012 #51

Certainly if the circumstances warranted it. MrSlayer Jul 2012 #52

I've often thought the DP should have the victim's family administering death. riderinthestorm Jul 2012 #55

I'll admit it, I could do it to the fucker who raped my best friend. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #57

To euthanize someone in great pain who wants to die? 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #59

No. And I oppose the death penalty because I don't want to ask JDPriestly Jul 2012 #60

Is that person Dick Cheney? (After being duly convicted and sentenced, of course) NoPasaran Jul 2012 #61

yes i could rdking647 Jul 2012 #62

Yes. NT Llewlladdwr Jul 2012 #63