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In a politer society with more reasonable laws using a gun to take someone's money would have exactly one outcome: a 9mm hole in that robber's head. Anything b

In a politer society with more reasonable laws using a gun to take someone's money would have exactly one outcome: a 9mm hole in that robber's head. Anything beyond that is charity.

thebooktocome 4y ago
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
- notch656c 4y ago
  Someone tried to rob me at gunpoint many years ago. Pointed a gun to my head when I got a flat tire innocently trying to bike home from a bad part of town. Why was I in a bad part of town? Working in a hospital with the people helping the people in a bad part of town. I didn't try to kill them, even though I managed to fight the upper hand off of them. When the scuffle ended all I said was "don't point things at my head." Choose to believe me or not. Don't make presumptions about eagerness.
  - thebooktocome 4y ago
    I’m supposed to take comfort in the fact that you’re more violent in hypothetical situations? The death penalty will always be executed with a certain false positive rate. Willing it as a form of punishment necessarily entails willing the death of innocent people, who crucially can’t be brought back in the event that the state realizes it was mistaken.
    - notch656c 4y ago
      You know the process for executing someone is very long, expensive road. Eager is the worst possible description of the death penalty. There are plenty of criticisms for the death penalty but now you're changing the goalposts as you realize your description written in a science fiction feel good reality was a bad fit.
      - thebooktocome 4y ago
        > you’re changing the goalposts Post one: The death penalty is always wrong because it can be handed out in error and cannot be revoked. Post two: The death penalty is always wrong because it can be handed out in error and cannot be revoked. No goalposts have changed in the making of this thread.
        notch656c 4y ago
        I think the edit timer hasn't timed out. May want to go back and at least make it look like that's what your "post one" said.

In a politer society with more reasonable laws using a gun to take someone's money would have exactly one outcome: a 9mm hole in that robber's head. Anything beyond that is charity.

thebooktocome 4y ago

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”

notch656c 4y ago
Someone tried to rob me at gunpoint many years ago. Pointed a gun to my head when I got a flat tire innocently trying to bike home from a bad part of town. Why was I in a bad part of town? Working in a hospital with the people helping the people in a bad part of town. I didn't try to kill them, even though I managed to fight the upper hand off of them. When the scuffle ended all I said was "don't point things at my head." Choose to believe me or not. Don't make presumptions about eagerness.
- thebooktocome 4y ago
  I’m supposed to take comfort in the fact that you’re more violent in hypothetical situations? The death penalty will always be executed with a certain false positive rate. Willing it as a form of punishment necessarily entails willing the death of innocent people, who crucially can’t be brought back in the event that the state realizes it was mistaken.
  - notch656c 4y ago
    You know the process for executing someone is very long, expensive road. Eager is the worst possible description of the death penalty. There are plenty of criticisms for the death penalty but now you're changing the goalposts as you realize your description written in a science fiction feel good reality was a bad fit.
    - thebooktocome 4y ago
      > you’re changing the goalposts Post one: The death penalty is always wrong because it can be handed out in error and cannot be revoked. Post two: The death penalty is always wrong because it can be handed out in error and cannot be revoked. No goalposts have changed in the making of this thread.
      - notch656c 4y ago
        I think the edit timer hasn't timed out. May want to go back and at least make it look like that's what your "post one" said.