MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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...is a desperately sad response to a dreadful problem. But hardly an answer.
How many people going to the gallows over the next few days will be guilty? Even then, an appropriate or correct response??
Que' ?
If you're trying to out-do the likes of the Taliban in inhuman brutality then you've already lost the argument, debased yourself, and ultimately embarked on a futile, self-defeating hiding to nothing
Surely the sensible right thing to do is to reinforce your own credentials as the opposite of everything they represent?
Absolute stupidity, which ultimately only endorses their barbaric world view, and contempt for human life
For a minute I thought this was about a new proposal from Theresa May....
Its actually the only policy UKIP have
TBH it's the same concept as those insane kangaroo courts we had after the London riots, just taken to its logical conclusion.
footflaps - MemberFor a minute I thought this was about a new proposal from Theresa May....
Not quite, but we've got to execute foreign students when they graduate now.
Numbers differ across papers but (oddly) the Torygraph is the most troubling, talking about 500 executions possibly in the coming days and the JPP report that argues that 80% of those on death row have not committed acts of terror.
Horrible, horrible story
If it was Theresa May we could relax as "execution" of the strategy would be highly unlikely
I'm not in favour of the death penalty. It's ludicrous to suggest that the punishment for somebody killing somebody is somebody getting killed by somebody.
However, if I heard that all the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and ISIS a-holes were rounded up , coralled in the desert and had the bomb dropped on them, bursting into tears would not be my first reaction.
Lex talionis is not the answer and it never was. It is even less so the answer when it is delivered to those other than the perpetrators.
Emotional reactions are rarely the best in terms of justice
Sad times
Mr WoppitHowever, if I heard that all the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and ISIS a-holes were rounded up , coralled in the desert and had the bomb dropped on them, bursting into tears would not be my first reaction.
Yes yes, martyr them all, just as they want. So their sons, nephews, cousins brothers etc can join the jihad and do it all over again.
The minute you execute a prisoner, you have lost the moral high ground, and continue the vicious circle.
The cost of de-radicalising and rehabilitating prisoners, or else holding them somewhere secure for the rest of their natural life, makes execution a far easier option. But probably not as expensive as these wars have been.
Yes yes, martyr them all, just as they want.
Gets my vote. Hope it works out for them.
The minute you execute a prisoner, you have lost the moral high ground, and continue the vicious circle.
It does depend on your set of morals though. If you live in revenge based culture*, then you've lost the moral high ground if you don't seek instant retribution.
*According to the bit I heard on the radio yesterday, such a culture is prevalent in this area of the world.
Mr WoppitGets my vote.
If you want someone dead off you go. Book a flight and go do it yourself.
Nah. I've already paid for someone else to do it, if they want. Thanks anyway.
Plus, I didn't say I "wanted" it. I just said I wouldn't waste any tears if someone gave them what THEY apparently want and wished them well with their ambition...
Why you no rissen?
We should send Persimon Bovis etc over there to builds few houses and schools maybe that would drag them out last century.
an eye for an eye makes us all blind.
That said; if they are going to run a state that has capital punishment, that issues and carries out these sentences - if it was me that was facing the noose, i think I'd rather go from courtroom to holding cell to the gallows than spend an eternity waiting for the day to arrive. I understand the need for due process and appeals but waiting an eternity for the same outcome in a Peshawari prison..... no ta.
If they prefer to execute those criminals then so be it, their country do as their like.
IMO, ya, the world is too populated I say someone start the nuke war please.
Slight hijack ... why on earth do Hollywood wants to provoke North Korea with "Interview"? Let them be and let Dear Leader take care of their own world. I really don't want to see another resources hungry zombie population unleashed. Dear Leader is doing well by containing them so rock the boat?
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theotherjonv - Memberan eye for an eye makes us all blind.
It is only true to some extend.
The question who is first to go blind? 😈