Re: Abortion

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marie A.) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mjkenoyer) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > See this is what continues to bewilder me about the pro-choice
> > argument, so much that it has become cliched: it is somehow OK to
> > dispose of a living being who cannot defend him/herself; yet it is NOT
> > OK for same pro-choice proponents to kill murderers and rapists who
> > prey on the defenseless. I just don't get it.
> > 
> > With the exception of rare and damning circumstances, I am against
> > both abortion and the death penalty because I feel both engender
> > violence. The surest way to perpetuate violence in any society is to
> > create more violence. Besides (and I'm going off on a tangent here),
> > the death penalty for even the worst wastes of sperm and egg who rape
> > and murder children is somehow the easy way out compared to a lifetime
> > spent behind bars, living the guarded life of a prisoner,
> > contemplating the wrongs that s/he has committed.
> 
> (snip)
> 
> Sir, if what you said were true death row inmates wouldn't be allowing
> their lawyers to file appeal after appeal to stop their executions
> from going forward. Do you see most of these men volunteering to be
> executed rather than spending the rest of their life in prison?
> Respectfully, you're flat out wrong here. When we don't execute those
> who have willfully and premeditatedly taken the life of another, as a
> society we make a statement that we value the murderer's life more
> than that of his/her victim[s].
> 
> Cordially, Marie

Hi Marie--I'm not a sir; I'm a woman. :-) 

To answer your comment--we're not valuing them much if we're putting
them in a cage, stripping all of their rights, and making them sit for
hours on end with nothing to do except contemplate their actions. It
would be much more costly as a society to fight death-row appeals and
continuing court costs than it would be to pay for these assholes' cot
and three hots for the rest of their lives. If anything, I think we
should be tougher on prisoners--no TV, no radios, nothing but the bare
essentials; and tougher policing so no prisoners can steal identities
and credit cards, or commit prison-justice crimes (née Jeffrey
Dahmer).

Well, on second thought--at the risk of contradicting my earlier
arguments, that bastard did have it coming...