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Originally posted by Lifetime:
I believe that all can be forgiven, and no crime unpardonable, so long as forgiveness and pardon is earned. If a man who has forfeited 20 years of his life in jail to ponder upon what he has done, and decides to change, should he not be given as much opportunity as anyone else to live?
Not if he took someone elses life, ok, so he spends 20 years of his life in prison for killing someone, that's nothing compared to the lifetime that the victim lost, not to mention any children they might have had, which will also never get a chance to be born and live, by the simple act of a single killing hundreds, even thousands of potential lives are lost. ok maybe not lost, but never even given the chance to exist.
And who can they possbly attone for this crime to, society? the same society which would pardon the criminal has no authority to forgive a crime like this, only god, so by simply speeding up the meeting, how is it any different than hunting down Bin Laden and killing him?
[ 01-14-2002: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]