12-03-2010, 01:42 PM
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Infamous Member
How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian.
Relationship Status: Happy
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic.
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I am on the fence on this one.
Part of me thinks we spend way too much money and resources
on prisons and the death penalty minus countless appeals. Thus it
would be fiscally prudent.
On the other hand, I would not want to execute someone who
might indeed be innocent. That would be ethically repugnant to me.
On the third hand...I cannot see me wanting to exact revenge if someone harmed someone close to me.
Inflicting harm on another after the fact is morally troubling for me.
It would make me a vigilante in my mind and that is not acceptable to me.
On the fourth hand....I would have no trouble defending myself, a loved, someone in danger if needed to do so.
That is simple self defense or coming to the aid of another in distress.
That, to me, is simple human survival instincts.
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