How is it people who are Pro-life are also for the Death Penalty?

Seems a bit hypocritical.

 

As far as I know, a baby knowingly can't commit a crime. Stewie doesn't count

 

Who says all people who are Pro-Life support the Death Penalty?

 

Cin didn't say "all".

 

He didn't say "some", either.

 

Touché....

 

A baby=/= a murderer.
I'm pro-life, but I don't support the death penalty. To be honest though, I really don't care if they are killing murderers. I'm not going to stick up for them. I do, however, support the death penalty in the case that a murderer escapes from prison and kills another person. IMO, he should be killed when he is re-captured.

 

If you're going to kill someone over their potential to kill or kill again, then why not just kill all babies? It's very possible for them to grow up and one day be a serial killer.

 

That's an extreme and ridiculous statement lacking any semblance of validity.

 

I've heard worse. And what makes it any different then killing a man for his past misdeeds? It's the same logic, just different words. Any person who truly believes that death is the only solution to the problems of crime is the same person who has the black and white sense of morality that compels them to hate murderers and love babies, despite the fact that both are human beings with the same potential to do terrible things.

 

This kinda sounds like the basic plot for Watchmen o.o

And I've no say in the topic.

 

But the baby hasn't done anything to show signs of becoming a murderer. Most people don't grow up to be killers, but those who do deserve the same early death they brought to their victims. I don't see why not.

 

Maybe in the case of people who go out into the streets of small towns and kill their neighbors because they don't like them. But it's hardly ever that simple. Any murderer has motives that run deeper then any court can fully understand. And sure, by killing that person, you've stopped him from ever murdering again. But every murderer is replaced with another. Obviously death does nothing. To find definite solutions to the problems of crime it'd be better to keep a murder alive and analyze what brought them to do what they did, and make sure no one else is presented with the same circumstance. It'd be more affective and more progressive for society as a whole to eliminate the source of murderers, not the murderers themselves.

 

I'm for the Death Penalty! =D

 

it would also be more affective if i could pull a magical hat out my butt that would create world peace. but that just isn't going to happen is it?

Because, as Advent said, a baby shows no signs of being a killer. But if a killer kills someone and then gets out of prison and does it again, its obvious that no amount of punishment will stop him from killing.

 

Nothing will ever change if you don't try. But no, it's fine, let's just except all of society's problems, because the final solutions are too hard.

 

It isn't too hard, it's impossible. Unless we develop some kind of brain probe that will tell us exatly what is going through a murderers mind when he kills someone, we will never know how to stop it from happening. Until then, why would we endanger our society by letting murderers with the potential of escaping from prison and killing people live? Why?

 

Minority report. O:3

 

Maybe we should stop investing so much ****ing money in prisons and start trying to make a magical probe brain, if you truly believe that's the ONLY way to get into a person's head. It's stupid to prolong a problem that could be solved once and for all and eliminate the dangers of a killer from every existing in the first place!

 

Each person's situation is unique. What are we meant to do? Make sure no child is exposed to an abusive step father? Make sure no person experiences a painful breakup? Not all issues that cause someone to be a murderer lay in the problems of society, in fact most come from one's own life, which really can't be changed by the government, or any other organization, no matter what their abilities or resources may be. To be blatantly realistic, there is no way to stop murderers from developing; killing them is the only way to reduce their numbers.