<p>You're weird >_></p>
<p>i like being weird....</p>
<p>sometimes weird=scary.</p>
<p>yes................</p>
<p>sometimes weird equals totally awesme</p>
<p>although that's pretty rare.</p>
<p>I'm a rare guy...........</p>
<p>that I can believe.</p>
<p>where are all the questions??????//</p>
<p>Does this one count?</p>
<p>What's the admission rate for Cornell's Hotel School (RD)?</p>
<p>Does this one count? NO
What's the admission rate for Cornell's Hotel School (RD)? Go to there website.</p>
<p>What is their website?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/</a></p>
<p>What's your take on the death penalty?</p>
<p>What's your take on the death penalty? (This is something i wrote a couple years ago i think).</p>
<p>The death penalty is a necessary evil that aids countries in executing the level of law they need to ensure that criminals do not escape the consequences of their actions. All countries need to be dedicated to helping the citizens of their land to be as safe as they possibly can be. Capital punishment is an important step in attaining the ideal goal of definitive safety.
Capital punishment as described by Wikipedia; “is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences.” It has been used throughout history since the beginning of human existence. In ancient Mesopotamia (1780 BC), The Code of Hammurabi contained a list of crimes and their punishments. Some of the punishments that included death were; if one accuses another with a capital offence, but cannot prove the charges, the accuser will be killed, if a robber is caught while stealing, he will be killed, if one steals the son of another, he will be killed. Britain also had over two-hundred and twenty-two crimes in the eighteenth century that were punishable by death including minor crimes such as cutting down a tree. Today, ninety-eight countries retain the death-penalty as a punishment even though thirty of those countries have not executed anyone in over ten years. Ninety-nine countries have completed abolished the death penalty as a punishment for all offences (However there are some special circumstances where the death penalty is allowed in eleven of those countries). Subsequently, the controversy of the Death penalty is a major issue in the world as the countries that retain and oppose it are split down the middle.
The Death Penalty is essential for many reasons. Even though, there are a few crimes that the death penalty should be a punishment for, one crime that is critical in essence of capital punishment is the despicable action of murder. To put this in perspective let us say that there is a person who has worked hard for his life. Coming from a middle-class family this young person worked exceptionally hard in school and did well. This person was then accepted to a great college. In college he or she worked very hard, he or she then attained an excellent job after graduating. As a result of this person’s hard work, this person becomes wealthy and lives an affluent life. Then a person, who is not so well off, arrives to the scene. That person then kills the rich individual because he or she was “rich, and ruining the world with the individual’s corporate lifestyle.” The well-off individual’s family becomes devastated, and barely can go-on with life with out the individual.<br>
Consequently, does the destroyer of this individual’s life deserve to live? No. The murderer does not have the right to the liberty of life after violating the individual’s right to life. As many beliefs have stated before, “an eye for an eye” is the course of action to be taken under these circumstances.<br>
Another reason capital punishment should be executed as a course of action is because of recidivism. In the state of Washington thirty-five percent of the one-hundred-nine murderers, thirty-eight of them were convicted felons, retaining a thirty-five percent recidivism rate. And although only four percent of the prior felons were previously convicted of murder, this goes to show everyone that without the death penalty, a murderer has the chance to repeat his or her crime. In contrast, not one single person executed has been successful in committing another murder, or any other crime for that matter. The death penalty keeps a one-hundred percent effectiveness on preventing recidivism.<br>
Many people though, are equally opposed to the idea of Capital punishment. They say that because most justice systems are imperfect, innocent people will unavoidably be executed by mistake and since the death penalty is irreversible it is inhumane. However, let us say that we imprison this person for life in prison instead of executing him. This person then lives for forty years after imprisonment before he dies. That one person will take almost one million dollars from the tax payer’s money and will inevitably die and that person’s death is still irreversible. With thousands of murders in the world today, keeping them in prison will give billions of dollars to those killers trying to keep them alive for no purpose at all in life except to waste money. And while I agree with Moses Maimonides quote "It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent man to death” I truly believe the death penalty is permissible in the court of law.
People also say that capital punishment violates a person’s right to life. Many different countries in the world have the right to life written in their constitution. For example, in the United States Declaration of Independence, Americans have the right of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However, there should be a punishment when someone violates that right. When someone murders someone, their right to life is completely suspended. They violated it first so the government has the right to violate it right back. While this shows that the government may be stooping to the level of the criminal, it demands that people understand the consequences of a crime.
All things considered, the government should still not have the final say in the death of another human being. It should ultimately be the decision of the family who lost the family member. This way, the government would not be violating any rights. It would completely fall on the decision of the family and the government would just carry out the family’s wishes.
In conclusion, capital punishment is a crucial part of maintaining a safe and happy society. Capital punishment lessens the desire of the evil for which we abhor. Contributes to the safety of the world, and helps ensure that murderers will not have the chance to take someone you love, away.</p>
<p><em>Poor Sheed</em>
Having to waste his time copying & pasting from wikipedia just to edify some faceless people.</p>
<p>SMH*</p>
<p>:) not all copied and paste.. i made it look like i wrote it.</p>
<p>I thought it was very well plagiarized...:)</p>
<p>Well, not really plagerized....."other minds" contributed to something I WROTE!</p>