Saddam has been executed

[TCO]

Originally posted by laurentius


This is why the whole world despises you. Matters none to you today maybe. But it will matter you one day when the mushroom clouds light your way to the Wall Mart.

Thats when I pray for your poor soul.

You can't shame me, you can't tame me. Give it up Jewish mother.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Make a decision there, slowwhead.

Are you claiming that you need the DP as a deterrent or to serve "justice"?

I don't know if you're blind, stupid, or both.
The penalty was never meant to be the deterrent.
A penalty is a penalty.

Let's put it like this, so maybe you can follow along.
1=1. 1<2.
2=2. 2>1.
Ok? Are you with me so far?
Penalty=Penalty.
Deterrent=deterrent.

[laurentius]

Killing is never justice

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by SlowwHand


I don't know if you're blind, stupid, or both.
The penalty was never meant to be the deterrent.
A penalty is a penalty.

You must be a ****ing ******.

Originally posted by me a half page back
If you weren't so silly you would see that everybody else understands that implicitly.

The threat is the deterrent. Duh.

Your harping on a pedantry is akin to my getting upset when somebody refers to the US nuclear arsenal as a deterrent rather than the threat to use it.

If you had half a brain you would see that and respond to the substance rather than the detail.

[SlowwHand]

The threat is the deterrent. Duh.

So what's your point, Einstein?

[TCO]

Originally posted by laurentius
Killing is never justice

It's just problem solving.

[SlowwHand]

And laurentius, you're out of the conversation, just based on general idiocy.

[KrazyHorse]

My point is that you can't seem to decide what you're arguing here. You claim a deterrent effect, I tell you that's not been borne out by any data, then you proceed to switch to a "justice" based position.

Make up your mind. Deterrence is an irrelevant concept in the context of justifying the US death penalty because there is no deterrent effect, so the sooner you stop talking about it the better you'll look. If you're going to go with your crypto-religious "justice" **** then commit to it wholeheartedly instead of weaseling.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by TCO


It's just problem solving.

Life imprisonment (and I don't mean 10 and you're out) works just as well.

[laurentius]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
And laurentius, you're out of the conversation, just based on general idiocy.

Oh, I'm sorry maybe I'm not enough of an idiot enough for your "conversations"

Not that I could give a damn.

[TCO]

If you've got a problem, yo, I'll solve it. Ice, ice, baby...

[KrazyHorse]

You missed a line, you maroon. Check out the beat while the DJ revolves it...

[TCO]

Isn't laurentius an on-topicer? I seem to remember in dimmest memory trolling some thread of his that was about what extra tribes to add to civ3.

[TCO]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
You missed a line, you maroon. Check out the beat while the DJ revolves it...

I was going to DanS it in, but couldn't be arsed.

[KrazyHorse]

He's around the OT sometimes. I can never really remember his position on anything. Probably boring.