Illinois drops death penalty

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I deny any and every accusation about sand-heading, inasmuch as I also advocate armed self defense -- the ragers against self defense end up ashamed before me -- and point you once again towards the utilitarian idea that an executed man does not commit further atrocities. Highly reliable, that one. Capital punishment is a societal edition of armed self-defense: it removes threats permanently.

. . . capital punishment did not deter them from doing the deed in the first place.

Which is where the intelligent man who shoots back comes in -- a quite libertarian idea, Griff. Spexxvet, however, gets bent altogether out of shape at the prospect, lacking rational thinking as he does: he is profoundly hoplophobic and mistakes this phobic pattern of thinking for virtue. Otherwise, he would have abandoned it long ago, as I did, though I did not have as long a path as he to walk.