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   Chris wrote:   
   > "David V."  wrote   
   >   
   >> Focus.... the word in question is 'ideals'. Try to use   
   >> that word in a sentence that has to do with your   
   >> fallacious statement above.   
   >   
   >   
   > Sir, if what you said were true death row inmates   
   > wouldn't be allowing their lawyers to file appeal after   
   > appeal to stop their executions from going forward. Do   
   > you see most of these men volunteering to be executed   
   > rather than spending the rest of their life in prison?   
   > Respectfully, you're flat out wrong here. When we don't   
   > execute those who have willfully and premeditatedly taken   
   > the life of another, as a society we make a statement   
   > that we value the murderer's life more than that of   
   > his/her victim[s].   
   >   
   > Cordially, Marie   
   >   
   > That block of text speaks for itself.  It represents an   
   > "ideal", that we should punish people according to their   
   > deeds....   
      
   See, that wasn't so hard was it? But what she said about one   
   life worth more than another is not an ideal, it was a lie.   
   Punishing people is fine, no problem there. When the   
   government doesn't kill a convicted murderer they are   
   showing that they value ALL life, not just certain ones.   
   That's a far better ideal.   
   --   
   David V.   
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