Little Girl Kills Intruders
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- gramme0
of course if someone killed my daughter I would want to kill them--thank god the laws of nations aren't based on my own impulses, or there wouldn't be a world left
Rand
(May 3 07, 09:22)This is why we have due process, investigators, juries, judges who undergo rigorous training. It's not exactly a system based on impulse. It takes weeks, months, and sometimes years for these trials to play out.
I've never said that the laws of any nation should be based on anyone's impulses. Some of you guys are quite skilled at twisting my words, it's amazing at times.
I think we are inherently moral beings, we can't get away from a sense of right and wrong. This is why we have laws and not anarchy. We are born with it. People try to separate ethics and morality, but that seems silly to me. They are inextricably linked. There are certain absolute rights and wrongs that are not predicated on whether I acknowledge their presence. But they are there nonetheless, and they nudge each and every one of us in the back on occasion, whenever we violate our innate sense of justice. It is possible to drown out that still small voice to the point of moral deafness, but we are not born that way.
If every murderer in the world was sent eternally packing, I'm not convinced that this would be a worse place. But I do understand the point behind keeping them alive, with the sole hope that they might become changed, rehabilitated.
You can separate church from state, but you cannot separate a man from his conscience. Even you, dobs, vote your conscience based on your idea of social, ethical and moral justice...whatever label you give it, your conscience speaks to you and informs your every decision.
Strong evidence, I'd say, that we are more than articulate monkeys who wear clothes and lack tails.