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0 pointscoldtea9y ago0 comments

>* Both life sentences (or multi life sentences) and death penalties are seen as cruel and not permitted in most of Europe.*

Yeah, but the US is shaped by the Old Testament morals of puritan religious nuts who left Europe...

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jomamaxx9y ago· 2 in thread

'Progressive Europeans' have Anders Brevik, who mass murdered 90 children, sitting in a hotel room with great food, internet access, video games, porn, girlfriends etc..

And will he eventually be out after is 'non life sentence'?

They executed SS Officers for much less.

I suggest in some cases the death penalty may be warranted.

coldteaOP9y ago

>'Progressive Europeans' have Anders Brevik, who mass murdered 90 children, sitting in a hotel room with great food, internet access, video games, porn, girlfriends etc..

Yeah, so?

They are bad because they don't care much for revenge or they didn't punish hard someone who killed many people?

As if having him die in some electric chair will bring those people back?

If anything, that's even more Christian (in spirit) than the Old Testament "eye for an eye" US mentality.

And if anything else, this treatment helps show Brevik for what he is, a lone loony who hurt innocent people -- as opposed to some "martyred" killer in a society that itself hypocritically kills people too.

And maybe this mentality is part of the reason why those "progressive Europeans" have way less Anders Breviks, whereas in the US there's one born every minute...

jomamaxx9y ago

An 'eye for an eye' would imply someone who stole could be stolen from, someone who maimed could he himself be maimed.

Executing Brevik is not 'revenge', it is justice.

He deserves to be executed.

I'm not generally a supporter of capital punishment, but it is blatantly immoral that he should live an almost normal, healthy life after his mass crimes.

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