Death penalty-what are your opinions?
I guess it is difficult for us to know whether we should against it or go for it. It is hard because nobody naturally has the right to decide whether or not to take a person's life away. Moreover, death penalty remains the cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment. There are facts and evidents that people have been wrongfully convicted for the crime they did not commit as well.
It is even more difficult because for me, I believe no living species should be taken life away, not a tree, not an ant, whatsoever. But this is not about religion or our believe, it's the law that we are talking about here. Sadly, we, human beings can not live in harmony, or in peace so badly that we set up a government and law system to keep every body behave in a frame, which is supposed to be correct, right, and fair. I suppose we are in form of wild animals that are trained to become pets.
How can we prevent violence in our society? What should we do with a criminal like Dutroux? He practically disturbed other fellows in an society. When a serial killers keep on taking other people's lives? or when a criminal keeps on kidnapping young girls, raped and killed them?Should we do as Sofia's comment to cut his "balls" and eat 'em like cheese ;-) (excuse my language) Is this fair? If we say, we should bear their lives, then we are not putting ourselves in the shoes of the victim and their families. We can't imagin how ruin the victim's life will become, and this will affect the whole family...Of course, killing the criminal will not undo the thing they did (I wish) but they do deserve the toughest pusnishment. In buddhism, we do not allow killing but we believe people deserve what they have done.
I am not completely in favour of the death penalty even though Vietnam is one of the country which still keep it. And for your info, a person with 15 gr of heroin is already sitting in prison waiting for his death penalty, this is wrong, even though heroin can ruin a lot lives, but I am not in favour for the death sentence because I think the person who buy drugs have the choice of saying so to it while victim of murder or else do not want another person takes their life away.
So, I think I would go for the death penalty but it really depends on case by case, and hope it is taken with lots of consideration before giving it to someone. I do not agree that a person should be killed but I believe everything should be fairly treated even if death penalty is neccessary needed.
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destrous community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. " Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.
It is even more difficult because for me, I believe no living species should be taken life away, not a tree, not an ant, whatsoever. But this is not about religion or our believe, it's the law that we are talking about here. Sadly, we, human beings can not live in harmony, or in peace so badly that we set up a government and law system to keep every body behave in a frame, which is supposed to be correct, right, and fair. I suppose we are in form of wild animals that are trained to become pets.
How can we prevent violence in our society? What should we do with a criminal like Dutroux? He practically disturbed other fellows in an society. When a serial killers keep on taking other people's lives? or when a criminal keeps on kidnapping young girls, raped and killed them?Should we do as Sofia's comment to cut his "balls" and eat 'em like cheese ;-) (excuse my language) Is this fair? If we say, we should bear their lives, then we are not putting ourselves in the shoes of the victim and their families. We can't imagin how ruin the victim's life will become, and this will affect the whole family...Of course, killing the criminal will not undo the thing they did (I wish) but they do deserve the toughest pusnishment. In buddhism, we do not allow killing but we believe people deserve what they have done.
I am not completely in favour of the death penalty even though Vietnam is one of the country which still keep it. And for your info, a person with 15 gr of heroin is already sitting in prison waiting for his death penalty, this is wrong, even though heroin can ruin a lot lives, but I am not in favour for the death sentence because I think the person who buy drugs have the choice of saying so to it while victim of murder or else do not want another person takes their life away.
So, I think I would go for the death penalty but it really depends on case by case, and hope it is taken with lots of consideration before giving it to someone. I do not agree that a person should be killed but I believe everything should be fairly treated even if death penalty is neccessary needed.
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destrous community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. " Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.
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