Posted on 11/26/2005 10:26:25 AM PST by Pikamax
"It may be important, but the atheist has absolutely nothing but personal preference for thinking it important. In fact anything he prefers or advocates is ultimately arbitrary. Welcome to post-modernism!"
My point was simply that there is no need to bring religious differences into this since we all benefit from basic social order.
BURN TOOKIE BURN.
If Arnold lets off a guy that killed 4 people what is he going to do when a guy is up for execution and he only killed one? Tookie deserves death and nothing less.
"If you can't do the time don't do the crime" Robert Blake in another life.
I get your point. I am nothing like the person I was forty years ago. However being reformed isn't a free pass.
The question isn't so much could he do more good. Anybody theoretically could, so why punish any crime?
Desmond Tutu would be a zit on the butt of society if it weren't for that knucklehead Bono from U2 talking about him incessantly during concerts in the 1980's.
A religious man? My left foot Desmond Tutu is religious. He certainly stands against what is beneficial for the public.
Tookie Williams is a violent and predatory monster who needs to be put down. He has served notice upon society that he is not fit to interact with decent people.
~ Blue Jays ~
"basic social order" went out with Christmas rage, or didn't you get the memo? Mores that kept people grounded were found on the idea, as you know, that civility and decency in public were developed as etiquette to keep us from ripping each others' throats out. We know this.
What we do not know is how to behave in public anymore, since all that is allowed includes incivility and downright hostility as a form of acceptable social behavior. With the ground rules of decorum now gone, there is little common decency to be had.
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