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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
This might be my first and last post here. Frankly, you all frighten me. I liked you much better when my only view into your heads was on the FB. Anyway, does this mean you are also against capital punishment too? I am just a simpleton, but it has always struck me how both liberals and conservatives have seemingly inconsistent positions on both issues.
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I am against capital punishment, but not because of any moralistic sense that execution of murderers is wrong. I am against it because I am all too familiar with the way the criminal court system works.
If we required DNA evidence or the like, provided competent and sufficiently funded counsel, and made every effort to prevent race-based prosecutions, convictions, and sentencing, then I would not be against capital punishment.
If we as a society made the decision on abortion in the same way that we made the decision on capital punishment, then I would be against abortion too.
Consistent enough for you?
