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the US is ok with love death penalty
DrenDran:
--- Quote from: Conan on October 04, 2017, 04:10:48 PM ---disregarding the stuff op, what the forget? whats the logic behind voting against this? im feeling like theres some context the article is missing
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I mean the idea is that it's a measure against Saudi Arabia and they're supposed to be our ally and so we vote against it.
Nonnel:
--- Quote from: DrenDran on October 05, 2017, 12:13:18 AM ---I mean the idea is that it's a measure against Saudi Arabia and they're supposed to be our ally and so we vote against it.
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actually,
--- Quote from: otto-san on October 04, 2017, 04:33:08 PM ---http://www.snopes.com/2017/10/03/united-nations-ban-death-penalty/
the story we're goin with is that the US voted against it apparently because they didn't like the UN telling people the death penalty is inherently unethical. i.e. the US thinks they're doing it the right way and they didn't support the UN putting pressure on everyone to end it. that sounds believable enough i guess lol
if it's any consolation we're very "disappointed" that we had to refuse to condemn condemning gays to death
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if it was legitimately, specifically "gay love shouldn't be punishable by death," then we would have voted for it.
PhantOS:
the fact that you can still legally take away the life of a harmless unarmed human being is so loving barbaric and i dont think there's any justification for it in the known universe