>>>>>Why not. I find ridicule always comes in handy when debating with pro capital punishment types. Have a good day :-)
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>>>>"pro capital punishment types" ? Wow.
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>>>Why wow ?
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>>I guess I have trouble visualizing "types" based on an opinion about most single issues. I usually find people and ideas more complex than that.
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>Well if I can't be flippant on a Friday night when can I.

Quite true. I, myself, would favor a formally declared "Flippant Friday" <g> (though I confess my combination of ADD and self employment means I seldom know what day it is. )

Actually I get the idea that the state should not be in the business of killing people and I think some of explanation for the reaction against capital punishment in most countries and its historic support here is based in cultural history, though I could be wrong about that. In any society where justice has been perceived as "top down" for all but very recent history, there is going to be aversion more than in a society that has thought of its justice as "bottom up" I'm not saying the perceptions are correct in either case and my whole theory could be nonsense, but it seems a contributor, just as our cultural mythology involving Taming the West explains our romance of personal firepower.

Everyone has their hot-buttons. Personally, I think anyone convicted of heinous crime should be sentenced to life listening to talk-radio.