Josh’s Comments (group member since Mar 20, 2009)

Josh’s comments from the Gig Harbor AP Language reads Dead Man Walking group.

The probably with instituting a punishment on a case by case basis is that there is no standard/set law. It would more or less mean that the punishment is up to the court's discretion which could lead to an abuse of power.

I can see your point, but it doesn't seem like it is strong enough reasoning on its own to support the death penalty. Yes, it's quite possible that a person would be more inclined to seek forgiveness for their sins if they had only a year or two left instead of decades, but who's to say that anyone, given enough time, would come to realise the error of their ways? I think that anyone, if given enough time to think about it, could come to realise that what they did is horrible. There could be exceptions though, but why take away their chance?

To address the painless death thing: though getting pushed off a building would probably be less mentally painful it might be magnitudes more physically painful. What if they didn't die when they hit? I'm pretty sure the most painless way to die would be CO2 or CO poisoning since the person wouldn't even know what was happening.

Now I would like to pose a question: What do you all think about the use of labour camps?

I think a better punishment would have been to place him back into the hole he was hiding in and put an ammo crate on top of the entrance.

@Brook:
In other words, labour camps. I agree entirely that the institution of labour camps would benefit our society much more than our present criminal justice system.

Lol omg nowai

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Yeah, that is quite hilarious.

It costs a lot of money to put someone to death as opposed to putting them in jail for the rest of their life. There are usually multiple appeals, lawyer fees, and all other types of court expenses that put the price tag of the death penalty in the millions of dollars.

To address part B:

Again, the death penalty is orders of magnitude more expensive than life imprisonment.

Yeah, I'd choose life imprisonment because if you are sentenced to death you die. And dying means you don't live anymore. Furthermore, if you are alive then you aren't dead and you can do stuff.

On a more serious note, you'd get a lot of free time to focus on something.

Based on that logic, adults should be judged less harshly for their crimes based because of their background. I'm sure there are cases in which a person grows up knowing nothing better than crime.

In other words, you can't make exceptions such as that. If there is a punishment for a certain activity then it should be applied to everyone who partakes in that certain activity with no exceptions.

It's not a big deal. She's a nun not a pro author.

A society that functions through the use of fear is a terrible place. Why would anyone want to live in a place where they constantly fear stepping even a little out of line. Furthermore, giving the government this power would give them absolute power and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Your proposed system would never work in the United States anyway, for there would be a revolution because, unlike North Korea, we have enjoyed a pretty great degree of freedom. We would also be much more prepared for a revolution because of the right to bear arms.

In closing, your proposed system scares the hell out of me.

When you mention punishments leading to rebellion, are you talking about abuses against the proletariat by the bourgeoisie leading to a righteous uprising? In that case I would have to recommend that you read the great Communist Manifesto.

VERY inspirational.

North Korea is just about the only country unaffected during the Zombie War, so they must be doing something right.

It should be noted that life imprisonment is MUCH cheaper than execution.

Additionally, there is the argument that the government is allowed to legally murder someone in the case of an execution, so shouldn't the people responsible for the murder of the murderer be put to death? It's like a psychotic chain of death.

Speaking of chains, what your feelings on labour camps and the thought that by putting prisoners to work they are repaying their debt to society?

Well when I first started the book I was more or less undecided about the death penalty. I leaned a little bit more toward the pro-death penalty side, but what I really support is labour camps. After reading the book I am even more in favour of labour camps.