One related to the joke thread controversy

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X I don't see how you can say that.

You really don't believe that there are people in the world who will always desire to hurt people and continue to act on those desires until they day they die?

I certainly do and we keep those people incarcerated for life for the protection of the community.

You don't think people deserve to know that they are beyond a shadow of a doubt safe from above monsters?

same answer

You would really put the right to live of the monster above the right to live of the rest of society?

Not at all, but above your right to act as part of a collective murderer yourself. By simply saying "kill 'em", we become the very monsters we abhor and, worse still, we support and engender the murderous actions so that others may feel justified in killing too.

We have serial killers here in Canada too, but they don't get 'the chair'. Instead they get studied and counseled to the great financial relief of the taxpayer, because we all know that the appeal process for death penalty inmates is extremely prohibitive. We've gotten so good at it now that such individuals have actually said that they hope they are never again released into society because they know they will kill again. Science is the answer, not vengeance.