The Death Penalty...Is it right?

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

So how do you feel about war? If your government orders you to go into combat, should you refuse on the grounds that God commands you not to kill, ever? That's what the Quakers believe, and they get special exemptions from combat duty, meaning that if drafted they only have to serve in non-combat roles.

Personally, I feel that if a person is guilty of certain crimes he has forfeited the basic civil rights that govern the rest of us. The main purpose of Captital Punishment to me is that using the state to do it lowers the possibility of vedettas.

Government is not right to go to war. War should not happen. War is the result of a weak nation that does not have the mental capacity to search for a peaceful resolution to a situation and decides to use muscle and brawn to do it's talking. Just the same way a bully in school would do.