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All Deaths Are Not Created Equal

Posted on | August 16, 2011 | 1 Comment

I once again read some simpleton quote the standard, “How can Pro-Lifers be for the death penalty? Is life sacred or not?” screed. So ridiculous, so wrong – and so completely not comparable.

No, I don’t believe the taking of an innocent life by an individual who finds that life “inconvenient” to be on a level field with a society choosing to enact the most severe punishment on an adult who has been found guilty of committing a crime so heinous it requires the harshest sentence.

You want to equate children to criminals, lets make it more fitting.

“How can those pro-abortion folks not be in favor of lethal injection for every person arrested for a criminal offense that might result in a prison term? What with over-crowding & budget cuts, any additional prisoners would be terribly inconvenient for us”

I find criminals very unwanted. Sure, being arrested doesn’t mean they are guilty; but they certainly aren’t as innocent as those babies are.

UPDATE: How about this – you have to wait to perform an abortion just as long as it generally takes to carry out a typical death sentence, with appeals & such. After 20 or so years, if you still feel that child deserves to die, you get him or her to accompany you to a clinic where a ‘doctor’ will perform one of these so-called “humane” procedures.

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Some people have messaged me and they somehow missed that I am CLEARLY illustrating an absurd argument by being absurd. I am certainly not calling for lethal injection kits in every police cruiser. I do, in fact, believe in due process, something that (as Phineas points out) those prisoners on death row have had – and those babies have not.



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Category: Law, peeves, politics

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One Response to “All Deaths Are Not Created Equal”

  1. Phineas
    August 16th, 2011 @ 7:34 pm

    That argument has always bugged me. There is a huge difference: a felon sentenced to die is executed after a trial and multiple appeals under due process of law. He is killed because he has committed a crime so horrifying that society deems his continued life intolerable.

    What crime has the unborn infant committed, and what due process of law has it received?

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