11-14-2006, 01:39 AM | #46 |
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I'm speechless really. That's why I'm typing instead. I cannot understand the pathetic excuses and justifications some people here have for killing other people.
Murder is wrong full stop! Period! The end! Finito! There's nothing more to add!!!
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As to wrongfulness, who's to judge? You're waaaay overdue for a plank-check, brother.
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11-14-2006, 07:02 PM | #49 |
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mmm.... these would be christian biblical scholars?
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Because no one has the right to life or death over another person.
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You will want to avoid the thread about the kid that got raped... lot of unrepentant blood-lust in there too. Sounds like the eighteenth century.
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Well, here's something I'll share with you, and you can call me a hypocrite if you like when I'm done.
If anyone laid a hand on my kids, I'd kill them myself. Does that mean I've changed my mind or have double standards? Nope. I fully realize that what I'd be doing is wrong, and I'd pay the consequences for my actions willingly, and if there is a God, he'll be the one to judge me when the time comes, otherwise, I'll just have to come back again and learn the lesson I missed this time round. No one touches my kids and that's about all there is to it.
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I never said it was anything more than my opinion. Obviously it's not a fact because the death penalty exists in some place.
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it's not set in stone...oh wait...
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James Bulger was the little boys name. It was shocking. I will never forget this case.
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My wife and I have a pact.
If either of us gets murdered, the other does not get a lawyer that will consider the death penalty. If the state insisted, we would not participate. We have discussed this more than once & we both know we have the strength of our convictions; having both had family members murdered in the past. I would not for my son either & believe the same for her. I teach him values that I must live, or all I have said to him, all I have tried to be for him, is a lie. His legacy would not just be more senseless murder and to have his parents become murderers as well, no. |
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