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Old 04-20-2015, 04:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
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saving more lives by using him as "psychological guinea pig" than we would by simply executing him, then wouldn't it be in our best interests to keep him alive?
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No.
Are you kidding me? You're more interested in killing somebody than people not being killed? What if my proposal had been implemented earlier, and had somehow led to this dude not killing that girl. Are you saying you wouldn't care, just so long as you got to kill some other guy from like twenty years earlier?

Seriously, either get a gun and go on a Punisher rampage, or ask yourself if your views actually reflect a useful solution to a problem.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Seriously, either get a gun and go on a Punisher rampage, or ask yourself if your views actually reflect a useful solution to a problem.
Useful solution to a problem? So naive dude.

Did you read what he did to that girl? Pretend it's your little sister.
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Useful solution to a problem? So naive dude.
Yeah, I'm sure when they stopped drawing and quartering criminals there were people rolling their eyes at the liberal pantywaists. If you can save lives, then do it. If you can't, then try anyway and then try something else when that doesn't work. Don't just reject anything that doesn't allow you to indulge your revenge fantasies.

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Sometimes it's not useful to put yourself at the perceptual level. Sometimes, in order to come up with logical solutions, you have to maintain a detached objectivity. Whether or not that sounds heartless is irrelevant. If my idea saves more lives and helps more people than yours does, then that's all that matters.
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