>>>Justice too often is about revenge rather than anything else..
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>>>The death penalty is babaric regardless of the form. In that sense the US is totally backward to any other western country.
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>>>"Thy shall not kill"
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>>It's actually "Thy shall not murder".
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>If you're talking of the 10 commandments it's actually "
Thou shalt not kill". "Thy" means "your" as in "belonging to you, singular".
Yes. I stand corrected.
But the the word "kill" comes from a Hebrew word "ratsach", which means "... killing without just cause...". So more accurately the modern day scriptures are translated to say "Thou shalt not murder".
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
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– Mark Twain (1866)
