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NEWS: "Otaku" Murderer Tsutomu Miyazaki Executed on Tuesday

The problem with a life sentence is that it eats up tax money that could go to better use than keeping a murderer alive in a horrible environment.

Do you believe that someone should be allowed to take a life in self defense? If someone broke into my home with the intent to harm me or my family and I fatally wounded them to protect myself and my property, would that be wrong to you?

What is the death penalty other than a form of self defense? It's not "an eye for an eye, fair's fair", it's "You've slain someone and by doing so proved yourself unfit to be around other people."

If it's so horrible to take a life even if the person in question is a murderer, why is someone who has committed such a heinous act on the same footing as someone who hasn't?

All right, say I'm John Q. Murderer, and I've been through rehabilitation. Either I'm batshit insane and once I'm loose I kill again, or I've been successfully rehabilitated and now I have to go the rest of my life knowing that I killed someone on purpose.

I'm sorry, I just don't see the upside there.

I also believe in you reap what you sow (as I am Christian but open to other beliefs). He shall burn in Hell for eternity with Lucifer or any of his demons raping and killing him over and over again.

Make no mistake, capital punishment is wrong. No matter how monstrous the crime, nothing justifies the deliberate taking of a human life in cold blood.

Frankly, I am somewhat sickened by the cheering and amen-saying in this thread. To call him a monster and a murderer, and to expect that he never be let out of jail again, is perfectly reasonable -- but to exult in a man's death? To say "amen"?

- abunai

Whose life do they threaten when behind bars?

What gives one human being the right to forcefully take another's life beyond self defense?

Being brought down both by situations is unique unto the individual, so you cannot paint all of them with the same brush.

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... you can't take a chance rehabilitating them.

Why not?

Make no mistake, capital punishment is wrong.

Make no mistake, I thinkcapital punishment is wrong.

No offense Abunai, but I have seen it several times where people who give your exact opinion(s) are the first to change their tune when it happens to "them or their family".

Other prisoners who might not be murderers, prison staff, plus citizens are spending tax money on keeping them alive.

What gave the murderer the right to take the life of the person they killed? Why should they have the right to continue to live?

Statistically, rehabilitation doesn't do a thing.

Funny how that whole thou shall not kill thing flies out the window just because you want revenge.

You knew the rationale of the quoted poster would be they might offend again, so just say that and why you think its incorrect instead of asking a question with an obvious answer.

Good riddance he's gone. We don't need anyone to make the word 'Otaku' a bad name.

Steel Angel wrote:

No offense Abunai, but I have seen it several times where people who give your exact opinion(s) are the first to change their tune when it happens to "them or their family".

Yet that it still an emotional appeal.

britannicamoore wrote:

Funny how that whole thou shall not kill thing flies out the window just because you want revenge.

It is far less funny that people know so very little about literature that they misquote and mis-translate the Ten Commandments in an invalid attempt to justify their positions.

The Hebrew commandments clearly prohibit murder which this criminal was guilty of, several times over. There is a different ancient Hebrew word for "to end the life of a living thing." It did not prohibit eating meat; killing an aggressor in defense of your life, family, or property; slaying enemy soldiers in war; or executing a capital criminal.

Even in the Latin Vulgate the word isn't contextually close to "kill." The first appearance of "Thou shalt not kill," was in the poor execution of translations by under-qualified translators that focused on poetic meter rather than literal accuracy - giving way to a slew of out-of-context and misleading quotation in English that simply do not happen in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, or Romance Language translations of the Pentateuch.

Moreover, the penalty for violation of that commandment ("You will not murder") in the time of Moses (who delivered the Commandments and obviously knew what they said) was execution.


- Marty Lund

Are you saying you are entirely with out emotion then?
Well good for you if you are, cause the rest of us do "feel", and it's called a human response. It's one of the core reasons people do practically everything they choose to do. Whether it be "right or wrong", almost every decision, has a basis in emotion. So saying it has no bearing about decisions is nonsensical.

Isikari wrote:

You knew the rationale of the quoted poster would be they might offend again, so just say that and why you think its incorrect instead of asking a question with an obvious answer.

Wholesale rejection rehabilitation in favor of execution is just so inexplicably bizarre that I really could not believe a normally rational person could purport that.

Anonymity on the internet and its effect on manners and our culture never cease to interest me.