otb,

Are you for real?

Blaming "Leftists" again.

Goodness me, - can't you come up
with a different argument just once - preferably
one of some real substance.

You're really becoming a total bore and not worth
either reading or responding to.

Do you not have anybody at home that you can run
your posts by. You need advice from someone if
you're not prepared to listen here.
Because honestly - singing the same song from the
same song book - has stopped working long ago
for you. Boring!

Foxy: Decisions about capital punishment are not really about Deterrence. They are about retribution - about a society's revenge on
people who commit what are seen as heinous crimes.

Well, you can look at it like that if you want. I see it as about Deterrence & I guess those people that are for the death penalty do too. Those who see it a retribution see it as revenge.

I would say it's a bit of both. There are those who have lost loved one to Drugs & are somewhat bitter towards those people who traffic & push Drugs.

I would say a 60/40 split in both camps.

Yes, I was having a friendly jibe. ;-) XOXOXO

@foxy

we do hold different views on solving the scourge of drug abuse and on capital punishment

a. i respect our south east asian neighbours' sovereignty to adopt laws of their own

b. i hold on to the sanctity of life and precisely because of this, we must have laws to protect life...if you take away life..you will have to pay for it
australians have this tendency to look at the murderer's rehabilitation rather than on the loss and broken lives of the murdered... weird
and often, these murderers on parole commits repeated offense and the Poirot Commission of Inquiry will invariably recommend more indepth studies.... while the rest of the world utters "huh?"

we live in such a dsynfunctional society.. child abuse...child sexual abuse by their teachers (listen to the news today on knoll grammar school)...abuse of women in domestic violence... rampant drug abuse.. one punch murder...

endless

maybe we should do a self examination of our own ills before we prescribe a broken system to a 'corrupt' society?

thks

Dear Jayb,

I can't argue with what you've written.

And I loved your jibe. ;-)

Dear Platy,

Great post.

Totally agree with your reasoning.

Thank You.

Want to know why they need to be executed?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2869230/Bali-Nine-ringleader-Andrew-Chan-mastermind-international-drug-deal-went-horribly-wrong-threatened-17-year-old-mule-Hong-Kong-jail-mouth-shut.html

All that needs to be said.