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How to Kill a Human Being
20 Responses to “How to Kill a Human Being”
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Execution is wrong, sure maybe the person killed somebody, but doesn’t justify killing them. My philosophy is, it would be worse living with the consequences of murdering somebody than having a thirty-minute execution.
I do believe this is a easy way out…I’d rather die right there than spend the rest of my life living in a cell watching the world go by. But there is certain times when killing is necessary..absolutely. One of them is if keeping them alive will endanger others. Example: If they keep alive a terrorist and imprison him for life and he may be a figure to other terrorists they may try to get him out etc..
So you could justify execution for SPECULATIVE reasons? That seems rather barbaric. If you’re going to be in support of capital punishment at all, shouldn’t it be based upon the crimes that one has commited, and not “what-ifs” and “just in cases”? Where is the justice in that?
Maybe I worded it wrong. I’m saying people such as war criminals that pose a threat to others and things like Saddam Hussein should not be kept alive as it will endanger good people. By this judgement do you think it’s fair that someone that is dangerous to others should get bail? Because I mean how can it be fair he doesn’t get it when another does. I believe also though those are the only circumstances they may be executed as there can be error. I doubt anyone was putting a gun to his head the whole time then he’s doing his thing.
I’d rather Saddam Hussein dead than in a US prison.
How sick are the persons that say murderers shouldn’t get what the give? I bet that if you ever have children they turn out to be delinquents and a blot on society or if they don’t it will be because they brought themselves up.
Wait till something bad happens to you or someone you love and the criminal gets a slap on the wrist and a free holiday at taxpayers expense and I wonder if you will still have that attitude.
The only way to stop crime is to make the risk of punishment worse than what they gain by the crime.
I don’t care if the person is mentally disabled or on drugs or drunk…. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOR NOR IS THERE ANY EXCUSE FOR HARMING ANYONE ELSE.
WAKE UP SOCIETY BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE
“HERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOR NOR IS THERE ANY EXCUSE FOR HARMING ANYONE ELSE.”
At what point in time is being anti-social bad or evil? It appears you have some axe to grind based on the attitude of your post perhaps you were wronged by someone who got a “slap on the wrist and a free holiday”. Regardless it is unfair to assume people who are by nature anti-social are anything but innocent UNLESS they commit a crime.
I do agree on the point of there not being a excuse to hurt someone else unless in the defense of your family or yourself.
Putting the philosophical debate aside, I think this was a fiendishly good documentary. I was impressed by the lengths the narrator was willing to go to present the topic.
I don’t think I’d risk killing myself *twice* just to prove a point.
I’ve always thought that if i were to be executed, the guillatine wouldn’t be too bad. you can’t see it coming, and the clean, instantanious severing of the cervical spine is as close to immediate death as it gets.
i think we should kill a person in the most painful way and that process should be open to people so that the next person would scare to do that kind of crime.
Basically, you miss public hangings?
And witch burning also, probably.
One big problem about death sentence is the possibility of making a mistake and getting some one killed incorrectly.
How would a governement make up for that? To the person they killed or their family.
We’ve seen it happen in other cases where someone is incorrectly convicted, in some of these cases there’s also no compensation that can be given for the change and problems that that incorrect conviction causes in the person’s life. (but at least he’s not dead)
Do these questions even cross your mind before you share your opinion? Or do you consider these situations to be a risk worth taking?
If that’s the case, what if it you were you the one on death row due to a misjudjement? Or your mother, father or daughter?
Even more, the legal system is not the same everywhere in the world. So what some might think to be an act that justifies death, others may not.
Not even to mention other more profound moral and cultural implications of this subject. And also, approvemnt of these laws might, in some cases lead to the abuse of those laws, not much different then what we already see happening with so many other laws.
well said, Tiago.
Thanks DL.
Just putting a different point of view out there. This is definetly a subject that shouldn’t be adressed with only one side of it in mind.
And btw, thanks for the awesome job you guy’s have been doing with this site. I’m reallly glad to find a place that can motivate people to think, especially nowadays when we often seem to be too willing to just accept information that is “fed” to us.
A society that murders tells its children it is ok to murder. It also shows them how little we’ve changed from barbarism when we say “oops, guess we got it wrong again, oh well”.
As for deterrence, 23 hours lockdown with no TV, no human contact, no hope of ever getting out, and no way to commit suicide scares me 10 times more than an easy offing.
And SARGE, I love how you put down everyone who disagrees with you in your first sentence. Have you seen the movie – Stripes? “Lighten up Francis!” :^D
It’s funny how in Europe they have gotten rid of the death penalty, yet there are far fewer murders/violent crimes than in the US or other countries that still have the death penalty… So much for capital punishment being a deterrent.
Also funny, is how many Americans are “Christians” yet support the death penalty. Whatever happened to one of the core beliefs of Christianity – FORGIVENESS, and I thought killing was a mortal sin too. I don’t think Jesus would have supported capital punishment!!!
As Ghandi said: “An eye for an eye makes the world blind”
my problem is with the idea of a painless death. what happens when death is painless? i could definitely foresee a world where the death penalty was much more strict, meaning it would be enforced more often. by there not being pain, a burden associated with death, what will help to prevent men from using the punishment of death more readily.
My feelings concerning the death penalty/execution are very ambivalent. Personally, I’m against it for several reasons–the main reason being the possibility of an innocent person being executed. But, I would never condemn the family members of a murder victim for feeling justice would be served only by taking the life of one who had taken the life of their loved one.
If an execution is going to take place, regardless, I don’t understand why the person to be executed cannot be put to sleep–just as one would be if he/she were about to undergo some type of surgery (anesthesia). After the person has been rendered unconscious, a lethal drug could then be given intravenously to stop the heart.
This would seem to a humane (the most humane possible considering the fact that death is the goal) type of execution (unless there is some type of legal or medical restriction preventing the use of anesthesia).
Very interesting documentary – very troubling subject.
The punishment is the taking away of the condemned persons life. Whether or not its painful is to me a little facile and perhaps a little too subjective to be universally accepted by everyone. Proponents of the death penalty will always insist on maximum pain and suffering.
Well done Mr Portillo on a compassionate approach to a difficult subject!
A very interesting study, this man has some guts. Wow.
But personally I don’t support the death sentence unless they’re a danger to others in the prison. And by that I mean extremes, not just slight violence. Being humane to prisoners takes the entire point away from punishing them. I mean, avoid unnecessary gore, but some pain is a given.
Anyways,
To add another comment, derailing from the issue of human execution.
I was completely appalled that they tested these methods on animals…innocent, defenceless animals.
I don’t care how humane it is, I don’t care about being humane to prisoners if you’re going to hurt animals just for the sake of testing killing methods.
Just, take what we’ve learned now and stop hurting these animals!
The main question is not if the way of kiling is humane but if kiling itself is…