What is the perspective here? Did they discover a reason or does it not exist?
abigscaryhobo
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Oh man this just awakened the memory of the "Big Dawg" stores. Actual stores that were ONLY big dawg merch shirts, hats, and pants.
It sucks, but there is a lot of precedent in the US for "you are allowed to be as stupid with your money as you want, as long as you're sane."
He may have delusions around his religion or beliefs, but he has the rights to have those delusions and beliefs, and if he wants to place bets on his beliefs because he holds them that strongly then he can. If someone else spots him as a mark and takes advantage of him, sure it was dumb of him, and they may not be in the cleanest moral area, but that's America, learn your lesson and move on.
You go to New York and some guy sells you a newspaper that helps raise money for charity and the homeless for $5 and you believe him then find out it's a free paper all over the city, that's life.
We can protect you when you don't know any better, but when you bet everyone in the room that you can fly and you can't? That's a hard bet to make buddy, and a harder bill to pay.
I'm interested, but can someone provide more context? What is this document, who wrote it, who is actually pushing it, etc.
Like if you went to the RNC and a presenter said "here's the plan" and everyone in the room erupted in applause that's one thing, but if one crazy person wrote this up wearing a tin foil Nazi maga hat and said "LISTEN THIS IS THE PLAN" to himself and posted it on Twitter then that's a whole different deal.
Without going on a whole dissertation, there are a lot of aspects that have to be figured out for a government sanctioned execution to occur.
You could in theory just have an officer whip out a shotgun and bang, problem solved, much like you mentioned with suicide. But when it's sanctioned by the government you have to be very discerning with a lot of different details.
Why are we ending this person's life
Because we have deemed their actions excessively heinous and do not want them to drain further on society by being incarcerated
In ending their life should we be causing them pain?
Huge debate, but the main reason we use lethal injection or gas executions instead now is to end their life without pain or torture. Ideally a person would just be turned off like a light without them even noticing.
How can you be sure you got the right person
Big question, but we are talking execution
What if the execution fails or goes incorrectly, now we've maimed someone and caused undue suffering, which as a people we have decided we wouldn't do.
Exactly. That's why there are so many issues surrounding lethal injection chemicals and sources. How do you create these chemicals properly and precisely, without spending excess money or profiting off govt sanctioned murder.
Why not carbon monoxide?
Short answer, it's flammable and dangerous to the people performing the executions. That's why nitrogen is a decent possibility for something like this, it is inert, common, and can be acquired and vented away with little issue.
Nope. Your vote always counts. It may not feel like it counts much, it's one vote, but it will absolutely count. We have to stop this rhetoric of "my vote doesn't count" because it's how people justify not voting at all.
Especially from the "not trump" side of things, voter turnout is the only thing that stops them from winning. If you can give right/republicans one thing they have consistent voter turnout, but every single time overall voter counts are boosted (Like during Obama's initial election) the needle of results sways strongly towards Democrats/independents.
So please, please stop saying your vote doesn't count. Because even if it's a single vote it is SO important that you go and do it.