tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post3581865720208372048..comments2024-03-28T14:14:11.551-06:00Comments on Unabashedly American: The Culture of Death and Its Tenet of EuthanasiaDarrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-13063403739557925212010-08-11T18:52:59.784-06:002010-08-11T18:52:59.784-06:00Free, I definitely can appreciate your consistent ...Free, I definitely can appreciate your consistent Libertarian stance on a person's right to die. Indeed there was a time when I felt just like that too. <br /><br />My thoughts on that are largely shaped by my faith and the very real fear of what the STATE could conceivably do in the name of the common good in the future.<br /><br />As for the death penalty, this is something that I have also wrestled with over the years. I agree that we must error on the side of caution in not convicting an innocent man to death. <br /><br />Further, not that this happens on most occasions, but I think that someone that is truly guilty of murder should be locked away in solitary confinement for the rest of his natural life. To me, that would be a far greater punishment than death and far more fitting to the crime, anyway.Darrell Michaelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-49041931969609679042010-08-11T16:42:37.062-06:002010-08-11T16:42:37.062-06:00As for the death penalty, I'm for it in princi...As for the death penalty, I'm for it in principle and against it in practice. Sure I think there are crimes that warrant death. Things like murder, rape, and child molestation are inexcusable and the monsters that perpitrate these crimes should be put down like dogs... in a perfect world.<br /><br />Our system of justice is the best on earth... but not even 12 jurrors are perfect. When I was in law enforcement I saw with my own eyes innocent men and women get convicted. Some of those wrongful convictions were overturned... others <i>were not</i>.<br /><br />Death is a bell you cannot unring, and while I think the majority of capital convictions are correct, we must tollerate the mosters in our midst because death is a bell that cannot be un-tolled. It is better to spare the lives of the murderer and confine them for life than to kill an innocent man.free0352https://www.blogger.com/profile/09930138880454672809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-12610273687912325062010-08-11T16:37:17.359-06:002010-08-11T16:37:17.359-06:00As you well know, I am an outspoken opponent of ab...As you well know, I am an <a href="http://free0352.blogspot.com/2010/01/its-not-choice-its-human-life.html" rel="nofollow">outspoken opponent of abortion.</a><br /><br />I won't go into the reasons for my opposition to abortion, you can click the link and read for yourself. However, I support a "right to die."<br /><br />Now that doesn't mean I think the STATE should have the right to pull the plug on you against your wishes. I simply think you have ownership over your own body, and have the right to do with it as you please. If that means kill yourself <i>for whatever reason</i> that's your right. Should you wish to pay someone to do that, agian... you own your own body. Do what you will. It all comes down to choice. An unborn baby has none when it's aborted (killed)<br /><br />A grown adult does. They have the right to make that choice.free0352https://www.blogger.com/profile/09930138880454672809noreply@blogger.com