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Reply to Murderers should be killed by the State in Politics JoeUser Forums

To kingbee: responding to this - "If the State, recognising this tendency to fallibility, institutes procedures intended to safeguard (as far as is possible) against such errors, and if these safeguards are carried out honestly, then the State has done all that can reasonably be done to ensure that no innocent person is executed in error. With that caveat in place, the accusation of wrongful execution cannot be levelled at the State, nor can it be used as an argument against th

Reply to Murderers should be killed by the State in Politics JoeUser Forums

To cactoblasta: On this point I disagree. Natural justice might require proportionality, but truly horrific murders cannot be compared to death by lethal injection. Unless we execute the murderer in the same manner in which they executed their victim, the state's response cannot be claimed proportional.

Reply to Murderers should be killed by the State in Politics JoeUser Forums

Well. I confess myself a little perturbed that no one who has so far responded (all of you, I'm going to presume, scions of the land of the free and the brave - and if you're not I don't really give a damn what you think because American opinion is the only opinion that matters) has yet to address the substantive issues I raised. I find it particularly odd that none of you - freedom-loving libertarians and individualists that you like to pretend you ar

Reply to Murderers should be killed by the State in Politics JoeUser Forums

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Murderers should be killed by the State in Politics JoeUser Forums

Let's start with a few basic points. This article is written from the point of view of a Civil Authoritarian - not a fascist, not a communist, not a socialist - a Civil Authoritarian. In my view the State has primacy over the individual and is subject to no law but it's own. I reject out of hand any counter-arguments made on the basis of some mythical body of 'interna

Reply to DID TOOKIE WILLIAMS DESERVE TO DIE in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Obviously he was a completely different man to the callow youth who had done the horrible deeds.Can this factor not be the ground for mercy? Tookie might have been different, but a great many others weren't. They were all still dead. If Tookie's change of heart could be considered as ground for clemency

Reply to Resurrect Tookie Williams! in Humor JoeUser Forums

If you're going to bring back anyone bring back Erzebet Bathory and Gilles de Retz. Then put Tookie in a room with them for awhile and let them play together. You could call it the Universal Badass Hour and feed it live to cable. Trust me, people would pay. And, since the trick of resurrecting the dead has been mastered, you could bring Tookie back again for a live re-run. And another... And another...

Reply to If I were Dictator of America in Politics JoeUser Forums

To Tova7: 'But if I were ANOTHER country and he had one such as he describes....I'd attack it! More land for me! Buwhahaha. Because really who would he have to defend it? Everyone would be too busy looking after their own interests or looking after their addictions. He could perhaps control drug traffic (though I doubt it) because we see how well it works now, even with LEGAL prescription drugs.' I refer you to the present state of Am

Reply to If I were Dictator of America in Politics JoeUser Forums

To Tova7: the same strictures on mice and quoting still apply. You say that if I were Emperor of the World I wouldn't have much to rule over because the population would be addicted to drugs, sex, whatever else their vices might be (and trust me, since I'd want a quiet, tractable, easily controlled population, I'd be doing my best to develop new and innovative vices to which they might become addicted so further ensuring that happy disposition to obey). On the whole your postin

Reply to If I were Dictator of America in Politics JoeUser Forums

TO cactoblasta: my mouse is still behaving badly and I cannot quote you so bear with me if I don't use your own words (see? I rule nothing - not even a mechanical rodent). You make mention of the 'overwhelming force' available to a world-dictator. Good government (successful government, able to meet its objectives) is not a matter of force generally available but force targeted toward and able to be levied against its objective. For example, n

Reply to If I were Dictator of America in Politics JoeUser Forums

To cactoblasta: Firstly, my being emperor of the world is simply a rhetorical device that allowed me to speak directly to three things that interest me in the society: sex, crime, and drugs. I didn't take it seriously enough to be bothered defending it even as such a device, and so I'll address your comment in terms of the functioning of States per se, rather than some imaginary personal fiefdom. The reason for the death penalt

Reply to If I were Dictator of America in Politics JoeUser Forums

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If I were Dictator of America in Politics JoeUser Forums

Let's imagine that a World Revolution has taken place (unlikely I know). And let's further imagine that, as a consequence, I have been made Universal Dictator and Lord Paramount of All Creation (even more unlikely, but still, let's imagine...). Here I am, on the first day of the New Era, snug as a bug in a rug on my Throne of Perpetual Rule contemplating wh

Saying goodbye to a friend in Misc JoeUser Forums

I didn't know Schatze for long, just the little over two years that I've been here, when she was long past her glory days. I knew a very grand old lady, full of character, a dog whose favorite creature in all the world was a man - almost any man. She was a floozy, and something of a petting-tart, happily sitting at the feet of anyone who would pet her for as long as t

Reply to Monsters and Puppets in Misc JoeUser Forums

To Tova7: Ok here is the deal with me on this and then I am done (hopefully). I am gonna say it straight out and not pepper this with "in my opinion" every sentence. So this is my opinion, right or wrong. in the same spirit I'm going to reply to that entire posting in the way I used to in c

Reply to On Hate in Art JoeUser Forums

Nothing wrong with hating the thing you love. Or the thing you want most. It adds an edge.

Reply to Monsters and Puppets in Misc JoeUser Forums

To Spc Nobody special: Try not to cut overly deep, okay? Ok. And I'm only sinister in the bedroom:)

Reply to Monsters and Puppets in Misc JoeUser Forums

To Spc Nobody special: Not everyone is as lucky as I am.

Reply to “Monster” - defined in retrospect in Blogging JoeUser Forums

To foreverserenity: as a response to what's been written here I wrote this ( Link ). Feel free to visit, and comment if you wish. And thank you. No one's ever written a blog about me before:)

Monsters and Puppets in Misc JoeUser Forums

Did you know that the sweat produced by pain tastes fundamentally different to any other kind of sweat? It does. It has an acid quality. Painsweat, I call it. Tears taste different too. I've licked the sweat and tears of pain from more than one body wracked by quivering and sobbing, and I know. I am a sexual sadist of considerable experience and no small talent and I

Reply to “Monster” - defined in retrospect in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Well. I'm really rather flattered. Dear FS: since you're sincere in what you say, don't attempt to be anything other than honest in response, and are honestly curious, you should never fear to make a comment when you feel inspired to. To Tova7: you're perfectly right. I was going to conclude with a small anecdote, till I realised that this article has no 'adult material' warning. Another time perhaps. It took me more

Reply to McDonald's, My Favorite Mexican Restaurant! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

*the above smart-assed remark was brought to you by LW, slumming on her hubby's account for the moment.*

Reply to McDonald's, My Favorite Mexican Restaurant! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

No they wont, we'd learn how to say Big Mac in Swahili if we had to...anything for those discs of salt-soaked, fat smeared gristles on bleached bread so full of air it would fit into a thimble if compressed, after all, what better bargain is there to be had for three bucks and 900 calories?

Reply to The Contextual Blindness of Being White in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

To Taboo Tenente: again, it's difficult to know where to begin. How about at the beginning, with communication as punishment. Because that's the motive behind the production of this effusion of pseudo-intellectual vomitus. You intended to chastise my wife for having the gall to stand up and say what it's no longer considered polite to say - that the narrative of the White man has as much validity, as narrative, as any other. Which is why the body of what you posted is phrased in terms o

Reply to The Contextual Blindness of Being White in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

To TaBoo Tenente: It's hard to know where to begin, it really is. On the one hand, if I were grading this as a paper presented by someone in the earliest stages of , say, a master's in philosophy, I'd have to say that on technical grounds it's a pass. The standard of writing is very nearly acceptabe. Unfortunately, it's also a ragbag of unquestioned, uncriticized assumption; an instance of the nonsense that can be created on the back