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Re: Society has been duped to go after individuals not the true killers...

Douglas College and Simon Fraser University -- he sits on the board in Canada I believe.

He put forth a life boat model and the number of deaths per year of the death penalty did not warrant the time spet on the matter in his opinion. Note he did not say don't write on the subject - he reminds me of a professor who told us not to write that "Death of a Salesman" was a tragedy. I did anyway and still got an A+ -- his remark at the end was "great paper but it still isn't a tragedy."

Early in the philosophy course he started with a comparison of Adolph Hitler and Mother Teresa as being more similar than they were different. Granted this was largely to get the class riled -- it worked a few dropped out...but those who tuned in the next week would have found the arguments sound.

The death penalty he argued was a non issue because he said it is media driven. Even if we killed 20 people per year "by mistake" or they were really innocent then so what? Mistakes happen -- mistakes happen and people die all the time.

Certainly there is a great paper any way you wish to argue the death penalty and I feel very confident in writing a solid paper no matter which side I was given to argue. I actually ran into some debate later in a Criminology class because I sat on the fence -- everyone was mad at me for even "considering" being FOR the death penalty. But the life boat mentality that we are "protecting" psychopaths giving them 3 meals a day for their rest of their lives at Millions of dollars at tax payers expense (which could instead fly in an African family who would work damn hard and be beneficial to our society for less cash seemed logical). Value added people versus the dregs of the earth. (again I could argue against what I have just said).


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