Reply #42: In this case

[Calico Jack Rackham]

Faith is all about choice, everybody chooses their faith. Stating an opinion about abortion is never anything but an opinion based on choice.

Agreed, but you are the one using religion to defend your position on Capital punishment and poo pooing abortion using the same logic. I'm simply playing Devil's Advocate

"We both know that the death penalty is applied disproportionatly to Blacks in America"

If you know it, why are you arguing about it?

I'm arguing the statement that you made which said if a retarded white man committed this crime he would not recieve the DP. Your own data refutes this false claim.


22 people have been executed for juvenile crimes since 1973. 226 were sentenced to death, ages 15 - 17. Most have been reversed or commuted, but 78 remain on death row. 45% were black, 20% latino, 35% white. Most of them were mentally retarded and mentally ill, as well as being raised by abusive parents.

Link please. A ten percent difference between black and white does not do much to help your claim either.

In a dog eat dog society that prides itself in its condemnation and dehumanization of people and tossing aside those at the bottom of the barrel. A society that worships cells but refuses to provide respectful care for those at real risk, the mentally ill and retarded. Then wonders why this crazy-making backfires with murder and mayhem. It isn't ABOUT Dahmer and Manson, it's about YOU. Why do YOU lust after vengeance and killing? YOU. Why is killing YOUR answer? Why is nothing less than KILLING the only acceptable method of dealing with murderers? Why are YOU a KILLER?

I'm the KILLER because not only do I have the sense to realize that some "humans" would better serve society by being culled from the herd, as well as being able to seperate my OWN moral convictions in order to ensure that the vast majority of society can remain safe. I don't lust after vengeance and killing I just see it as a neccessary evil and I have the abilty to suspend my own moral code to see it through.

You are a hypocrite and refuse to admit it, while I embrace it. You refuse to see a fetus as a human and categorically disregard it as a bunch of cells while championing the poor downtrodden dregs of society who would just as soon slit your throat as look at you.

I see those cells as life, worthy of being allowed to be birthed yet I suspend my morality in regards to abortion because I believe that the choice is a womans to make and also because society is better served without having millions more unwanted children roaming the earth. In the same breath I suspend my morality in regards to CP because I believe society is better served without having a bunch of butchering pigs consuming the same oxygen as my children(remember case by case not broad generalization).

I am more honest than most of my other fellow Liberals and way more honest than the Right Wing Nuts because not only do I admit my hypocracy but I also am consistant in my beliefs. Perhaps its your turn to step up to the plate.