'I would like to live in peace with you, but you don't seem to want that.' don't make me laugh David f. You just hate having your worldview exposed for the fraud it is.

Dear runner,

If it can be shown to me that my worldview is a fraud I will gladly admit it.

However, calling me and my worldview names is not a reasonable way of showing that my worldview is a fraud.

What does it mean that a worldview is a fraud?

It is difficult to live in peace when one person doesn't respect the others view. I respect your right to have the views you have. However, your views seem to me to be accompanied by anger and intolerance.

However, if you can produce a reasonable argument to show my views are a fraud it will be most happy to hear it.

Back to the firing squad.
Some jurisdictions may well issue blanks to some of the squad, but the onlookers, the officer in command and the squad would know by the recoil etc., which of the squad fired blanks.
The individual soldiers would know because firing a blank and firing ball are quite distinctly felt on the shoulder.

Would the relevant authorities run the risk of the soldiers with ball rounds not aiming at the prisoner?
For this reason alone I think that blanks would not be used.

I am against the State having a legal mandate to take a life.

I have no sympathy for these two because they knew it was a gamble and they lost.......bad luck boys but that is life.

The two men they are going to shoot are not the two boys who planned and failed, and on that truism alone the sentence is not just.

Is Mise >>The individual soldiers would know because firing a blank and firing ball<<

Yes exactly Is Mise......whats the point...the executioners will know as soon as the stock recoils.....and the way the cardboard wadding of the blanks come out of the barrel is distinctive from a metal round....blanks at executions, an urban myth?

sonofgloin wrote: "The two men they are going to shoot are not the two boys who planned and failed, and on that truism alone the sentence is not just."

By that criterion any imprisonment is unjust because it is reasonable to assume that no prisoner feels the same before and after he or she is apprehended and sentenced.

I am not the same person I was when I started writing this post.