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**eliniaguilefp7m** · 07-21-2012, 04:09 AM

You misunderstand me. Its not about punishment, or justice, or anything. Its about removing an element from society that clearly can't live WITHIN a society.

Pardon the link here, but its like Joker and the Batman. The Joker is irredeemable, but society refuses to enact the death penalty on the Joker and so each time he escapes he kills more people without a care and Batman just puts him back in Arkham.

We keep the Joker alive in comics because it makes a good story, but why keep someone alive in real life with the same issues. He walked into a theater armed to the teeth with tear gas! Why kind of person does that? Raise your hand if you think you can rehabilitate someone like that.

It's not about rehabilitation, it's about removing him from society to spend his life proverbially rotting in the solitude of jail, it's about not justifying a death with another which is the very same reason that this stuff happens immensely disproportionally more in the USA. A place where life is worth less than anywhere else in the civilized world. A place where killing a guy because he wants to rob your wallet is justified. It's the same viscous circle that put the US in this situation. A place where fireworks are sometimes illegal yet a 26 inch barelled, 700 round per minute cannon of death is perfectly fine.

07-21-2012, 04:09 AM	#45
eliniaguilefp7m Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 385 Senior Member	You misunderstand me. Its not about punishment, or justice, or anything. Its about removing an element from society that clearly can't live WITHIN a society. Pardon the link here, but its like Joker and the Batman. The Joker is irredeemable, but society refuses to enact the death penalty on the Joker and so each time he escapes he kills more people without a care and Batman just puts him back in Arkham. We keep the Joker alive in comics because it makes a good story, but why keep someone alive in real life with the same issues. He walked into a theater armed to the teeth with tear gas! Why kind of person does that? Raise your hand if you think you can rehabilitate someone like that. It's not about rehabilitation, it's about removing him from society to spend his life proverbially rotting in the solitude of jail, it's about not justifying a death with another which is the very same reason that this stuff happens immensely disproportionally more in the USA. A place where life is worth less than anywhere else in the civilized world. A place where killing a guy because he wants to rob your wallet is justified. It's the same viscous circle that put the US in this situation. A place where fireworks are sometimes illegal yet a 26 inch barelled, 700 round per minute cannon of death is perfectly fine.
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