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It's cheaper to kill them instead of keeping them alive at the expense of the government.
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Actually, studies show that it isn't... The state of Kansas did a study and they found that the average death-penalty case cost the state $1.26 million, going from the start of trial to death. The average non-death-penalty case cost the state $740,000, going from the trial to the end of incarceration. So did the state of Tennessee. And New Jersey concluded that, had the people that had been killed since 1983 (when they reinstituted the death penalty) been given life without parole instead, the state would have spent $253 million less. Meanwhile, the state of Indiana found that they spent 38% more giving the death penalty than had they given life without parole, North Carolina spends an extra $2.16 million per execution than had the same person been given life imprisonment and Florida would save roughly $51 million per year by giving people life without imprisonment instead.</p>
<p>That the death penalty is cheaper is a widely believed, though incorrect, assumption.</p>
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i believe in capital punishment for gangsters.
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Shouldn't there just be capital punishment for those who actually kill people, and not necessarily for those who choose to fraternize with a group of people with whom they feel comfortable/to whom they can relate? Just because someone is in a gang doesn't mean that he/she is out there killing people at will. In fact, one gang (either the Bloods or the Crips-I don't recall) was started only to benefit/improve its community. </p>
<p>...What I find interesting is that so many people (in the "real world", not just CC) think/say "blah, blah, everyone in jail is horrible. I don't like them-we should just kill them all." (an obvious exaggeration-I just mean they look down on/demonize anyone who has been arrested/in jail) I'm willing to bet that nearly everyone has done something illegal in his/her life (even something as small as jaywalking), so we're all pretty much "criminals." The main difference between those who are incarcerated and those who aren't is the people not jailed just haven't been caught.</p>
What do we need Pharmacists for? I see no reason when people can just learn pharmacology themselves.
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yeah now your getting it. We can still have professionals, nobody is saying we cant. But there is nothing stopping a person from having the same knowledge as a doctor or engineer. Books are books. They don't have access to special materials, that the public doesn't. you simply embrace human ignorance, i refuse to.
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I hope, for your sake, you outgrow these ridiculous ideas.</p>
<p>what makes the ridiculous. I don't believe any one human is inherently smarter than another. I don't believe a doctor is smarter than a crack head. Who says that they are?</p>
<p>I'm not going to respond and start an argument or debate, for 2 reasons:</p>
<p>1) You are flat out wrong (not just based on my own "experience", but on various biological studies as well, particularly in the field and areas of genetics and heritability). I don't know how anyone can believe what you've said.</p>
<p>2) If we continue, I'm going to start getting frustrated and it will probably end up becoming a classic bitter internet argument with thinly veiled ad hominem attacks.</p>
<p>With that, I take my leave from this thread.</p>
<p>"'are you serious? so capital punishment for selling A PLANT, and the pervert that likes touching 5 year old boys gets 10 years, and is out in 6.'</p>
<p>Never said anything about pedophiles. Re-read my posts, please. I believe in more serious punishment for all crimes, but in the case of drug dealing, capital punishment would be more of a deterrent."</p>
<p>The government has too much at stake with policies like that, unless you take coke and maybe weed out of the picture. But I wouldn't be surprised if you see policies like that for crack-cocaine soon enough...</p>