Applications of the Death Penalty: The Gas Chamber
I saw. One of my best friends, unfortunately says pretty much the same thing to me, in all seriousness. She told me that she is all for making the death penalty illegal in other countries because their justice systems aren't fair like it is in the US, but says that we do it right in America. I argued her point that we're not as perfect as she believes and she replied that innocent people dying 'can't be helped' and it is 'just the way it has to be', and 'no system is perfect all the time,' and 'you gotta weigh the pros and cons', and the pro of giving a murderer 'true justice' outweighs the cons of when we make mistakes, because, according to her, it happens so rarely. I asked what if it were her being unfairly judged, and with all seriousness she replied it would never happen to her. All this from the same friend who made the flippant off-hand comment that should any of her friends ever murder someone, she knows exactly how she'd cover it up and she'd help them get away with it... So apparently, if you are her friend, you're not deserving of the death penalty for being a murderer, but everyone else, they sooo deserve it. The logic is strong with that one. I know that she hasn't taken the time to think about it, she just thinks it's something that America has always done, and that it works really well, because that's what we get taught when we are young. But I can't even get her to feel sympathy for anyone whose been innocent and killed by our justice system, it'd take a miracle to get her to feel sympathy for someone she sees only as a guilty murderer, with no humanity left. She's all too happy being a lemming anyways, she hates all politics in general, or so she says.
Ember, Jul 20, 2012
