Tasmania's current involvement in the Euthanasia debate would make a good topic for here.

A few posts in the 'in soviet Russia, laugh loses you' thread, just reminded me of a topic I was looking at, at uni the other day...


Is religious education child abuse (interpret as either school education or home education, but please distinguish between the two when responding)?

Far from 'perfect', Notorganic doesn't have a twin.

And you'd be the perfect subject. No loss.

You really were born in the wrong decade & country. You'd make an excellent Mazi "doctor".

Am I the only person who finds it hilarious/perplexing that the same forum member who has recommended that other users kill themselves is now preaching against capital punishment?

The prison system being a dangerous environment in the US is down to a number of socio-economic influences rather than the death penalty. In many regards it's no different to here in Australia. I'm kind of tired so can't be bothered going into great detail but I'll elaborate on what I'm saying the next time I'm online.

Yeah I agree with the death penalty, but I would like it if people on death row were given the option of having their penalty transferred to life imprisonment if they agree to being subjected to scientific experiments, after signing waiver. That way we save more animals and there is choice involved.

I'm just not a fan of killing as a punishment. It hasn't stopped anything in the US and has made the prison system a dangerous environment.

Chemical castration has been condemned by many human rights groups. It went right to the US supreme court where it was ruled it was a cruel and unusual punishment (and therefore against the 8th amendment).

In 2010 a convicted paedophile who was chemically castrated was found not guilty of allegedly touching a 7 year old girl inappropriately. Linky. So there's evidence to suggest that it doesn't work any way.

if im not mistaken ,paedophiles can ask for chemical castration .But it is totally voluntary which is a joke

Castration for sex offenders?

Calm down there, Rainman.

They all have an 'A' in their first name and an 'E' in their last name :shock:

"Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. Prison turns the state into a gay dungeon master."

I'm a proponent of the whole "If you kill a person you forfeit any rights or moral standing" school of thought. You've either made a conscientious choice to disregard the laws and social convention of write and wrong, or you lack the capacity to discern and there's no chance for rehabilitation.

I'm not saying that all murders should warrant the death penalty, but in the case of the Chris Lane murder, the kids think it's a joke. Laughing and dancing as you're arrested is sickening. You kill a man in cold blood, laugh about it and you get free board, gym membership, food and laundry? No. That's bullshit.

Serial offenders who have no chance of rehabilitation and are a drain on the system deserve to die. In the cases of (for example) Adrian Bailey, Anders Breivik, James Holmes or Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, I fully support the death penalty.

As a mentioned before, people like Breivik should get it. Where there is no doubt that this person committed horrendous crimes.

Well we can't prove it either way. ;)

Prison with no chance of getting out is good enough. No need going around killing people because they killed someone. What if mistakes were made?

I don't agree with the death penalty but then we put down troublesome animals. I think this lacks understanding about their state of mind. Keep them alive so that we can learn to be better at helping people like them before they commit the crimes.

What do you think about sending murderers and rapists to places like Halden Prison?

People already know killing is wrong - you're just showing them that they will be punished if they do so.

No. Why would I kill someone to show killing is wrong? How primitive does that sound? In fact, I'm pretty sure we learnt about how primitive this method was in primary school.

:roll:

We don't like it because they give it out for what we consider to be lesser crimes. If they did it for murder/rape I wouldn't have a problem with it.

Given the opportunity, without any consequence for you AT ALL, would you shoot the three people who killed Chris Lane?

This . The death penalty is making us as worse as those who murder . But im conflicted

I don't like the idea of a Gov't/judiciary dishing out death - we don't like it in Indonesia/Singapore and I wouldn't like it here.

I would be in favour of those who are sentenced to life in prison (with no chance of parole) being able to chose death... life in prison is no life at all.

then sure do it but in some cases ive heard and read about they have executed the person who apparently did the crime but years later they found out they bungled and had to pay the innocent persons family compo . There has to be a pretty water tight case before handing out the death penalty

I am totally against the death penalty as a punishment that humans hand out to one another. It is God's punishment.

I am certainly not in favor of the death penalty but surely there could be cases where there is absolutely no doubt that the person convicted has committed the crime.

>Says yes to pulling the trigger on the Internet.

>Wouldn't have the balls IRL.

Watch interviews with executioners. They are scarred.


Edited by theselectfew: 24/8/2013 04:36:47 PM

Sure.

but what if the person gets put to death ends up being innocent.