[Dragonman]

who knows? He could be God.

how is God related to this?
all i'm asking is, do you have the right to take someone's life away if you yourself did not imbue them with it?

Well, yes. Way back in time it was decided on who was stronger just like all other species. Whoever defeated the others did what they wanted. Nowadays we've developed a society and exclude behavior for the sake of living more peaceful, enjoyable lives. But when someone horribly violates society, it becomes a difficult choice on what to do.

From my view, a murderer commited their crime because:

1) They were mentally ill
2) They a burning emotion inside them that fueled their nerve to commit the crime
3) They were for some reason shunned from society their whole life

When someone grows up nowadays they are growing up in a modern day society where we've established certain are just plain wrong like killing another person. When someone breaks this practically "mental law", they've obviously got some good reaosn for it. So instead of killing them on the spot it'd be better to find out their reason, like if an emotion drove them to it and what gave them such strong emotions.

I'm beginning to lose my train of though so I'll stop now.

[Darkness]

Hehe, so true Draggy. We should try to figure out why they did it so maybe we could keep it from happening again >.<

[Kaezion]

who knows? He could be God.

how is God related to this?
all i'm asking is, do you have the right to take someone's life away if you yourself did not imbue them with it?

Well, yes. Way back in time it was decided on who was stronger just like all other species. Whoever defeated the others did what they wanted. Nowadays we've developed a society and exclude behavior for the sake of living more peaceful, enjoyable lives. But when someone horribly violates society, it becomes a difficult choice on what to do.

From my view, a murderer commited their crime because:

1) They were mentally ill
2) They a burning emotion inside them that fueled their nerve to commit the crime
3) They were for some reason shunned from society their whole life

When someone grows up nowadays they are growing up in a modern day society where we've established certain are just plain wrong like killing another person. When someone breaks this practically "mental law", they've obviously got some good reaosn for it. So instead of killing them on the spot it'd be better to find out their reason, like if an emotion drove them to it and what gave them such strong emotions.

I'm beginning to lose my train of though so I'll stop now.

what you're talking about is Murder Two, which gets the murderer a jail sentence of twenty-five to life. Murder One is the capital punishment crime, in which the murder had a decidedly sinister motive and planned the murder out in a rational way. in american law, once a person is convicted of murder one i.e. it is proven beyond reasonable doubt that he/she had a sinister motive and was able to rationally plan the murder, he/she can then be given the death sentence.

even if this murderer unfairly took the life of another person, isnt it just as unfair to take his/her life? this is the eye-for-an-eye principle coming into play, and from my perspective at least, it is justified vengeance, and civilized murder.

[Elvenblader]

I agree with what he has to say. As far as who plays the hand of god we are living in a civilzation that requires order and law. Without order there is chaos. If it wasnt for these laws that were in place a person could walk into a store and rob a store clerk and kill him and get away with it. In a court of law that guy is going to be convicted, but without the laws that are in place that guy that killed the store clerk gets away with what he did and he gets to go on living and might just go and kill again. And people like David westerfield could just go freely and kidnap some other little girl off the streets, rape her, and then kill her. What good would that do if he got away with what he did and he gets to walk for the horrible crime he committed? Well I'm getting a little lost but I'm gonna stop here

This post has been edited by Elvenblader5: 23 July 2005 - 03:52 AM