Especially given how many of the ilk around here will rise to give a standing ovation everytime person X kills person Y who was trying to steal item Z.
People these days own some fine things, but I've never seen a kid's life or a mother's life destroyed/devasted/completely ruined by someone stealing a wallet or an SUV, etc., although I've seen that happen plenty of times when whomever decided that their unbreakable vows to dedicate their life to another person were actually not so unbreakable afterall.
For that matter, nobody requires you to promise your life to another person. You can just shack up for all I care. But if you do make the vow, then I say that life is owed one way or the other. Disagree if you like... it's not as though I will ever be authoring a successful law to the effect. The only real outcome this world will ever see of my opinion is that I will hold my own vows in greater sanctity than my own life.
Chivalry, I think it used to be called....
Your attempt to implicate everybody on this thread as hypocrites by suggesting they would all approve of death for theft, but not for murder, is laughable.
Surely you can backpedal better than that.
BTW - your writing style is not merely as eloquent and impressive as you think. Combined with what you have chosen to call an “alternate view,” it makes you look silly. In fact, I debated typing this. See my tagline.
Well said...with one addition...
“People these days own some fine things, but I’ve never seen a kid’s life or a mother’s life OR A FATHER’S LIFE destroyed/devasted/completely ruined by someone stealing a wallet or an SUV, etc., although I’ve seen that happen plenty of times when whomever decided that their unbreakable vows to dedicate their life to another person were actually not so unbreakable afterall.”