Just for a change of pace

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Being anti-death penalty is not a malleable position for me.

With that bit of information, you should be able to answer this question and any other future examples that may come to mind.

I would be able to answer all future examples that may come to mind if I knew what the word malleable meant.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

I would be able to answer all future examples that may come to mind if I knew what the word malleable meant.

Changeable, basically. My anti-death penalty view is non-negotiable. As much as I understand the impulse for certain people, trust me I do, it's about the principle for me. It's about the fact that you be better than other people who do bad things. Killing them in a nicer way does not count as "better" to me.

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Conservatives and liberals seem very hypocritical on these issues.

If conservatives believe all life is sacred... than putting the worst of the worst criminals to death should be a no no.

Of course it should be the opposite case with liberals.

I'm perfectly happy with my thinking on it, because if I don't actually believe that an aborted zygote/fetus/Wev is a person, then I don't create a moral contradiction by my indifference to its not existing any more. So I'm not actually contradicting myself.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Changeable, basically. My anti-death penalty view is non-negotiable. As much as I understand the impulse for certain people, trust me I do, it's about the principle for me. It's about the fact that you be better than other people who do bad things. Killing them in a nicer way does not count as "better" to me.



I'm perfectly happy with my thinking on it, because if I don't actually believe that an aborted zygote/fetus/Wev is a person, then I don't create a moral contradiction by my indifference to its not existing any more. So I'm not actually contradicting myself.

fair enough