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Who killed Mr. Boddy in the study and with what?: the great debate topic™®
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: Perry on January 05, 2017, 05:09:52 PM ---judging someone's life as a human is impossible.
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Bull
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: Nonnel on January 05, 2017, 05:05:28 PM ---i understand morality is subjective and arbitrary, but obviously there's some basic concept of good and bad, otherwise what are laws based off of? robbery is against the law because it's wrong to take other peoples' property. without morality, it could just as well be legal.
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Laws are based off of prosecuting deeds that are directly harmful to society. Wantom theft and homicide is illegal because of such. Not because it's bad in an evil sense, but because not prosecuting it would harm innocent people's way of life.
Without morality, it would still be loving illegal to steal other people's stuff.
Perry:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on January 05, 2017, 05:11:01 PM ---Bull
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How do you fairly and objectively judge someone's life then?
Red Spy:
Path seems to forget that murder is an illegal killing
--- Quote from: Perry on January 05, 2017, 05:13:16 PM ---How do you fairly and objectively judge someone's life then?
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Judge them by the crime they committed?
Nonnel:
--- Quote from: Insert Name Here² on January 05, 2017, 05:09:30 PM ---There's still that risk of them being able to get out or harm someone when the chance comes. Plus there is the cost of supporting them for 20+ years highly outnumbers the cost to put them down, which they'd be deserving after killing multiple people and then some.
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It costs $1.26 million to go through the legal trouble of euthanizing someone (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty), and between $14,603 and $60,076 to keep individual prisoners per year. (http://thecrimereport.org/2012/02/13/2012-02-the-high-cost-of-prisons-using-scarce-resources-wise/)