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Well, there had to be a first time...didn't there?
I should have been more clear. It is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The International Bill of Human Rights consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols.
That is your opinion and you know what that is worth.......Why is that? Because you have no answer when your kind murder in the womb?
I have a flash for you. The death penalty is legal in the USA..........I notice you did not respond to my comparison of abortion and the death penalty...You lefties never do....cat got your tongue?
I not only believe in the death penalty for all capital crimes but it should be expanded to include certain criminal convicted of rape and child abuse.
It is not murder. Ask mac.
Yes, it is legal, does not mean it is right. Abortion is legal, some say that is not right. In both cases it is legal so cannot be called "murder" according to people on this thread. I think state-sanctioned killing is murder -- that is my opinion. Also my opinion -- abortion is not murder, most of the time when people disagree with me about abortion it has to do with the beginning of life. I will discuss that in the appropriate thread. This is a death penalty thread.
And I gave and example of the hypocrites anti death people people are........Do you have any idea how many people 42,000,000 are?
More then LA and NY combined....... Liberals like you have compassion for rapists and murderers.. but none for the baby in the womb. I wonder if you would feel the same if God Forbid your mother, sister or someone else close to you was raped and murdered............Would you still have the same compassion for that scum of the earth?
So in other words...you're not a good catholic. Is that what you are saying?
this thread is about the death penalty. not abortion.
Yeah but I love the comparison my far out left wing friend and you can't argue it because you know you don't have a leg to stand on.
And I gave and example of the hypocrites anti death people people are.......
More then LA and NY combined....... Liberals like you have compassion for rapists and murderers.. but none for the baby in the womb. I wonder if you would feel the same if God Forbid your mother, sister or someone else close to you was raped and murdered............Would you still have the same compassion for that scum of the earth?
I definitely have my faults, But I do remember the sermon on the mount where Jesus said and I paraphrase " Render to Cesar what is Cesars and render to God what is Gods",.........The death penalty is legal law.
I definitely have my faults, But I do remember the sermon on the mount where Jesus said and I paraphrase " Render to Cesar what is Cesars and render to God what is Gods",.........The death penalty is legal law.
I know. I was the one who originally referenced both the UDHR and the ICCPR. It doesn't change the fact that these conventions did not legitimize the death penalty.
It is legal murder.......
Perhaps we are using legitimize a bit differently. What they don't do is make it illegal. Therefore it's not murder. I believe it's unjust....but then I believe several legal things are unjust.
Nothing is made "illegal" by the UN or these conventions. We don't even adhere to the ICC.
So, therefore, by that logic, the death penalty is not murder. :shrug:
So, therefore, by that logic, the death penalty is not murder. :shrug:
It is YOUR logic. So, yes, the death penalty is not murder. By that same logic, homicide is not murder.
You may have been able to effectively demonstrate that the Nazis murdered their own people...
But you have yet to respond to the numerous other examples I have given. According to your logic, the Nazis murdered, and the Stalinists did not?
Homicide is the killing of one human by another. Technically, that can include self defense, though in common usage it is synonymous with murder.
btw, it's not MY logic. It's just logic.
I haven't said that Stalinists did not murder.
Your logic is flawed, given that you conveniently use international standards even when those standards are not necessarily explicit.
And again, if you really want to be strict in your logical undertakings, the Nazis did not murder and they did not commit genocide because those standards were implemented AFTER the fact.
No, but your logic would dictate that they did not murder.
My logic is not flawed. Murder is an illegal killing. It's really that simple. The only reason we are talking about international law is because you brought up the Nazis, and genocide existed despite not being recognized as a distinct crime.
Negligent homicide is murder. By any standard, a government killing it's people who have committed no crime and have not been so convicted in any court is illegal.
The Nazi killings were legal under their own state laws.
There was no international law condemning genocide at the time, so your entire argument falls apart for two reasons. First, laws regarding crime and punishment are served at the national and state level NOT the international level. Second, there was no convention or standard on genocide during the holocaust. Your logic dictates that in order for something to be murder, it has to be illegal under the law. Ergo, there was no law (whether looking at state or international) at that time.
Negligent homicide is a completely separate issue. And we're not talking about standards or guidelines, but LAWS. There was no law which made Stalin's reign of terror illegal.
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