Time and time again, I hear people advocating...well, murder, really. It's strange how we always leap to violence as a means to an end. A quote by Nietzsche nicely sums up my feelings on the death penalty:[i]"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."[/i]
When we kill killers, we become the killers ourselves. What we do is no better than what they do. Showing mercy to murderers is what separates us from them. If there's not that distinction, then we're not a system of ideals, we're just a regime.
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Who the Hell necrobumped this God awful thread? I was sure this thread died and was sent into the void months ago where it should have stayed, but NOOOO one of you just had to ruin the [i]somewhat[/i] peaceful state of The Flood.