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user-inactivated  ·  3745 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's talk about two things they say never to talk about:

    1. Where do you stand on the "right to life" or the "free choice" debate?

I will take pro-lifers' ethical position seriously when they start trying to ban removing people from life support or refusing to use it in the first place. Until then it all reads as misogynists punishing women for having sex to me.

    2. Where do you stand on capital punishment?

I think a prisoner should be allowed to choose it; I would consider execution more merciful than life or a very long sentence if I had to choose between them, and we could use more mercy. I don't think it should be imposed, because retributive justice doesn't belong in this century, and if we insist on being barbaric then we should choose something less irrevocable to get our tough on crime boners, because neither judges nor juries are omniscient.





ecib  ·  3745 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I think a prisoner should be allowed to choose it; I would consider execution more merciful than life or a very long sentence if I had to choose between them,

Interesting take I hadn't considered before...