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Mr_Rogers

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8. As soon as you can do something about human nature...

Reply to kcr (Reply #6)

Wed Apr 30, 2014, 06:36 AM

Apr 2014

You might get somewhere...

Until that point you will always have a small percentage of the populace that is extremely violent and results in what we saw in OK.

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The arrogant assholes in oklahoma botched the execution after refusing to disclose their methods. [View all] Warren Stupidity Apr 2014 OP

Don't do the crime don't suffer it's penalties boomer55 Apr 2014 #1

you got your revenge plus a bit of torture added in for good luck... spanone Apr 2014 #2

Torture? IronGate Apr 2014 #3

An eye for an eye? amiright???!! PeaceNikki Apr 2014 #18

Tell that to the family of the girl he murdered. IronGate Apr 2014 #21

k. PeaceNikki Apr 2014 #23

Understand, I'm not condoning what the state did, IronGate Apr 2014 #24

Hell has a special place for people like you FreakinDJ Apr 2014 #4

I don't buy into your mythology sorry. boomer55 Apr 2014 #5

Well, another one who doesn't buy that mythology will weigh in, then. kcr Apr 2014 #6

As soon as you can do something about human nature... Mr_Rogers Apr 2014 #8

Can't completely remove all murder, so that excuses barbaric, bloodthirsty revenge? kcr Apr 2014 #10

You might see it as bloodthirsty revenge... Mr_Rogers Apr 2014 #12

Better to kill than to ignore the ridiculous requests of mentally iill people? kcr Apr 2014 #14

That's one thing I've never understood in some people... Mr_Rogers Apr 2014 #16

You're the one who brought up the mentally ill guy as an example. kcr Apr 2014 #22

ya - it shows FreakinDJ Apr 2014 #7

I don't 'buy into the mythology' either, and I oppose the DP in all cases petronius Apr 2014 #11

So why not just move right on to flailing, drawing and quartering, and the rest of the Warren Stupidity Apr 2014 #9

Sometimes, not doing the crime still leads the same penalties... LanternWaste Apr 2014 #13

+1 Jgarrick Apr 2014 #17

An eye for an eye? amiright???!! PeaceNikki Apr 2014 #19

So the state must be just as or even more evil than the criminal. MohRokTah Apr 2014 #20

Remember to point out that this is the reddest of the ReTHUG red states malaise Apr 2014 #15