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3WD:
I just never understood the "right to life" argument. You murder
>someone, have willfully terminated their "right to life", they have no
>recourse, and a high-quality society should respond by limiting your
>"right to liberty"; placing you in jail. You murder your fellow inmate,
>society responds as before.
ERIN: It right to take life/death is confusing to me too. But the respect for
life is important, the rules defining the levels seem to point to this
importance (something is better then nothing, alive is better then dead,).
I don't like the "eye for an eye" idea about death, it seems more like revenge
then justice. I know this is a cliche but have to ask "do two wrongs make a
right". What really confuses me is when prisoners are prevented from
committing suicide. (this shows there are worse punishments then death). I
may not understand the reasoning about this but the message seems to be you
can't commit suicide because life is to be respected, you have to wait until
we say you die. I think the power of a judge/jury needs to be held in
check..do we really want them to decide who has the right to die or not. It
just doesn't make that doctors can not end the life of a patient who is
suffering and wants to die but our justice system can. So we can't let the
doctors play god but we can let the judges/juries.
WIM: Unfortunately global society is not such a high-quality society yet,
partly
>> due to unilateral tendencies in the USA.
ERIN: I think if you really want to create the feeling of a global society,
America shouldn't be singled out.
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