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In reply to the discussion: So we kill someone to show that killing someone is wrong [View all]JonLP24
(30,061 posts)such as Billy "the Ghoul" reasons for supporting the DP but not the blood thirsty kind, those ones really give me the creeps. Its like when I saw a documentary or a story on a state executioner who quit, unless you're a sociopath it especially doesn't feel right when you're the one turning on the switch.
Reading Texas death penalty case, mainly the controversial ones, I can't remember which individual this was but in addition to maintaining his innocence the last group of people he was around facing the same fate, he said the DP sends a message that whether you learn or grow, improve as an individual, learn from it or not the state says it doesn't matter. If this guy becomes disillusioned later in life with the groups that influenced him (with the use of propaganda) we're just missing out on opportunity to learn to better be able to counter the propaganda & equal rights. Too often enforcement or reaction just creates more terrorism "Oppression is the incubator of terrorism". Or he could be a sociopath just as much as any of those terror leaders, just think he bought into the BS, false hopes, & false promises not saying he shouldn't be punished but focusing on the opportunity costs from executing him.