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Chile — A nice place to live and work…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060116/ts_nm/chile_election_dcChile elects an Agnostic president! Should it matter? Does it?Thanks to Jim for keeping my ears out on this one.

131 Responses to “Chile — A nice place to live and work…”

  1. avatar karen says:

    anadrol
    I know, I know. Absolute (that terrible word) accuracy is needed.
    But evidence is getting better all the time. And sometimes there IS evidence , but it’s inadmissable because of some beaurocratic slip-up or a snag in the legalese.

    I’m saying when you have someone dead to rights, pun intended, sure his/her guilt, then fry the bloody bastard(Ess).

    If it costs that much more to kill them then do it on the cheap. No frills. (Back to cruel and unusual).
    It seems all the laws protect the ones who committed the acts oagainst the innocent.

    Again, how many people have been killed in trying to hunt down a handful of ME renegades? Violent crimes are nothing more than person-to-person wars. The rules for the big wars can fit the small ones.

  2. avatar Deadly Doomham says:

    Reluctant,

    I wasn’t raised in America at all. I’m from Alberta, Canada! This place is so americanized, there’s not much difference, but you should still get your facts straight! Blunder forgiven.

  3. avatar Deadly Doomham says:

    If you want an interesting take on the lives of federal inmates, read “Papillon” by Henri Charriere. It’s a true story about the author’s life, how he was wrongly imprisoned and nearly killed on several occasions. Will make you think twice about saying “we should kill them, the bastards!”

  4. avatar anadrol says:

    I’m saying when you have someone dead to rights, pun intended, sure his/her guilt, then fry the bloody bastard(Ess)

    But how do you know for sure, a lot of the time the DA is looking for someone to “hang” and the accused has sub-standard representation. I think that it is more of a punishment locking them up and taking away their freedom for as long as they live than it is to just kill them. Once they are dead they cannot atone for their crimes anymore you should know that your’e an athiest.

    p.s. Do you think that sending Scott Peterson to the gallows on circumstantial evidence is right?

  5. avatar reluctantatheist says:

    DD:

    This place is so americanized, there’s not much difference, but you should still get your facts straight! Blunder forgiven.

    Then allow me to rephrase:
    the fact that you were raised in Canada in and of itself has an impact on you, as being raised in America has on me.
    And you can’t deny this:

    Our society is distinctly Anglo-eurocentric

    Rather, BOTH of our societies are.
    My error doesn’t invalidate my point whatsoever. :P

  6. avatar bi11h says:

    The cost to humanity of fifteen centuries of Christian savagery ? of hundreds of millions of lives brutalised and truncated, sacrificed to war, torture, pogrom, burning, pestilence and plague ? is incalculable.
    Christianity is the worst disaster in human history

  7. avatar karen says:

    Since 1973, 122 people in 25 states have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence.

    Just this past year, 31 children died of child abuse in NC alone. I think that stat trumps your stat.

    Nobody in jail is atoning, they’re just biding their time.

    Scott Peterson gets a thumbs down from me.

  8. avatar anadrol says:

    Just this past year, 31 children died of child abuse in NC alone. I think that stat trumps your stat.

    What does that have to do with anything? The stats speak for them selves the DP is no more of a deterrent to murder than life in prison. If it doesn’t achieve any thing positive then why have it?

    I think that you are under the misconception that fear of the death penality would otherwise stop an individual from commiting a homocide.

  9. avatar karen says:

    anadrol
    The DP is not a deterrent because there are other consequences for the same acts.
    If the DP was required for certain crimes, I believe it would again become a deterrent. If nothing else, it deters one particular person from committing the act again. Also, someone in prison still has access to people on the outside who may commit acts at his behest. If you’re dead, you can’t order up any other crimes.

    I’m sure there are those who would kill without regard to the consequences of their acts. But there’s simply no way of accurately knowing how many people refrained from an act because of the consequences.

  10. avatar jim says:

    I just wanted to interject about the importance of the Michelle Bachelet election. It is not that we should vote for someone because they are an atheist. This has nothing to do with anything here. What is important is the fact that a population that is predominantly theist elected someone who is publicly agnostic or atheist, (whichever). That is something! That is progress. We are moving forward.

  11. avatar anadrol says:

    I’m sure there are those who would kill without regard to the consequences of their acts. But there’s simply no way of accurately knowing how many people refrained from an act because of the consequences.

    Statistics show that there is no link between an increase in executions and a corrisponding decrease in homocides. In fact the opposite can be shown. It could infact cause more murders. Strangely the an increase in executions caused a decrease in homocides in states that didn’t offer the DP. I Just don’t understand why an atheist would not want someone to suffer in jail over a quick and painless death.

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