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An eye for an eye. If you commit murder, you should be executed. Period.

25%

I support it in some cases of 1st degree murder when there's extra violent/malicious extenuating circumstances.

33.33%

I don't support it. Killing someone because they killed someone makes no sense.

20.83%

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Scipio Africanus

11/15/2007 9:55 PM

Grognard fantôme

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There is a difference between committing the Appeal to Nature and engaing in philosophical Pragmatism.
-- "'The front' is wherever you stop running away. Get used to it. This is what modern warfare looks like." K T Cat Edited: 11/16/2007 7:14 PM by Scipio Africanus

Leo

11/16/2007 9:09 AM

General

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-As for the rest, isn't that just babble? I am tempted to simply yield this point to the Subject Matter Expert. I was explaining how the US system manipulates human nature, and how it leads to 'real good' which was a statement that you had questioned previously. As that we apparently do not agree to what human nature is, and that I can guess what you think of the US system, the point is moot, and is therefore, indeed babble.
-- --------------------------------------------- Any word you had to look up in a thesaurus is the wrong one.

Roadkill

11/17/2007 8:25 AM

LUNATIC ATHEIST!!11!!!

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Leo (11/16/2007) -As for the rest, isn't that just babble? I am tempted to simply yield this point to the Subject Matter Expert. I was explaining how the US system manipulates human nature, and how it leads to'real good' which was a statement that you had questioned previously. As that we apparently do not agree to what human nature is,and that I can guess what you think of the US system, the point is moot, and is therefore, indeed babble. -Considering the amount of ruthless dictatorships you've established, and the fact that the people you're fighting right now are people you put in power a few decades ago, makes me think that your "real" good quota might still be in the negative...
-- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. --Steven Weinberg(1933- )

Scipio Africanus

11/17/2007 1:17 PM

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Roadkill (11/17/2007) Leo (11/16/2007) -As for the rest, isn't that just babble? I am tempted to simply yield this point to the Subject Matter Expert. I was explaining how the US system manipulates human nature, and how it leads to'real good' which was a statement that you had questioned previously. As that we apparently do not agree to what human nature is,and that I can guess what you think of the US system, the point is moot, and is therefore, indeed babble. -Considering the amount of ruthless dictatorships you've established, and the fact that the people you're fighting right now are people you put in power a few decades ago, makes me think that your "real" good quota might still be in the negative... Yeah Leo! Didn't you know the evil geniuses controlling the U.S. actually control the planet? Behind every crooked Dictator you'll no doubt find the omnipotent--yet paradoxically incompetent--CIA, and a string of ruthless American dictator/Presidents who strangely have been passing on their power to the next guy in line endlessly for over 200 years. Definitely something is fishy in Denmark.
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Nuclearcow

11/17/2007 4:32 PM

Udderly ridiculous

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and the fact that the people you're fighting right now are people you put in power a few decades ago Al Qaeda? Sunni and Shiite extremists? The U.S. is DANG powerful afterall!! Do they know 'we' put them in power a few decades ago?
-- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow-lines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain "Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Harold Thurman Whitman

psweetman1590

11/17/2007 7:09 PM

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Definitely something is fishy in Denmark. You fail at English Lit 120, Scip. The line is "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
-- Emulator of Otto von Bismarck, Master of realpolitik, May he rest in peace. But the liberals should be careful of screaming too loud ... of conspiring too well ... of undermining us too thoroughly. Because if they succeed, if they do get what they insist they want, then the result may well be something they never conceived ... "They have made a desolation, and they call it peace." ~Tacitus~ ... but a peace controlled by our former enemies. --Tosk

Locus Coeruleus

11/17/2007 7:16 PM

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Yeah, Psweet, but if you say that, you'll sound like a square. No one says "state". It's simply: :There's something rotten in Denmark!"
-- Reaching out now and I touch your face, Please believe I'm only traveling. Like seeking wonder from a foreign place, It matters not from where I'm coming. -Ween, "Back to Basom".

Tosk

11/17/2007 8:46 PM

die with honor

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Well one could truly give it a dramatic flair and use. Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge when I tell you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Or is mixing quotes as bad as mixing metaphors???
-- **************************** Mine honor is my life; both grow in one: Take honor from me, and my life is done: Da Bard ... But something tosk would say. Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now they bleat like sheep for security. ~ Norman Vincent Peale~ We don't have to live in the kind of America the two Major parties have in store for us. Together, let us lay the foundations for an America worthy of our Founding Fathers. ~Ron Paul~ Edited:** 11/17/2007 8:50 PM by Tosk

Scipio Africanus

11/18/2007 5:58 AM

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Tosk (11/17/2007)

Well one could truly give it a dramatic flair and use.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine