Death Penalty temperature gauge - Do You Support the Death Penalty?

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42. Judging someone else

on the basis of their answer to that question really sucks.

First of all, how do you know those people haven't had to deal with disgusting and violent crimes committed against their friends or family members? Or that they might honestly be thinking outside the box about how they would feel if something happened to a loved one?


I'll tell you what...if a loved one of mine was ever murdered, I don't know if I would have it in me to be a fucking saint and NOT want the person who did it to die also.


It was bad enough, back in the 1980s, to find out that an in-law had been sexually molesting my daughter for a couple of years. I wanted to put my hands around his scrawny filthy neck and squeeze until his head exploded and he was dead.

Even now, more than 30 years later, I see him in ever failing health and I glory in it. He is wasting away little by little...day by day, month by month. And I don't give a shit if he suffers.

What does that tell you about me, huh?


Yeah...as a society, we should be beyond brutality.

But as individuals, it's a lot more complicated than just sitting on our high horses looking down on the people who dare to be honest.