Re: Abortion

Don Swayser wrote:
> David V. wrote:
>
> > Don Swayser wrote:
> >
> > > David V. wrote:
> > >
> > > > Don Swayser wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > .... Contrary to your contention the deasth[sic] 
> > > > > penalty is a deterent[sic] to violence of the
> > > > > most extreme form, murder. The death penalty
> > > > > wasn't applied, until recent years, since the
> > > > > mid-seventies. The murder rate rose during those
> > > > > years. Since the death penalty is again being
> > > > > pronounced the murder rate has declined. It is
> > > > > now down to pre-ban rates. Those are the
> > > > > facts....
> > > >
> > > > Those may be "facts" but it is a fallacy to assume
> > > > that the removal of the death penalty caused a rise
> > > > in the murder rate. Texas has been offing people
> > > > for a long time and their death row is still
> > > > packed. Those that claim that capital punishment is
> > > > a deterrent know nothing about, and aren't
> > > > interested in, studying criminal behavior. They
> > > > just want revenge.
> > >
> > > Then you believe that the rise and fall of the murder
> > > rate which coincides with the abolition and
> > > reinstatement of the death penalty is a coincidence?
> >
> > Yes. There is nothing to prove they are connected.
> Just like there's nothing to prove that poverty and
> economic depressions are related...

No. You just can't pull two statistics out of the air and
claim they are related.
--
David V.
Yosemite Llama Ranch

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