Reply #289: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong and Wrong. [View All]

[youngred]

Charles Manson will NEVER get parole. Do you honestly believe ANY parole board in their right mind would even concieve of letting Manson or Muhammed go? You must be crazier than they are if that's what you believe. Life without Parole would be the sentence I think is most fair. Which effectively cuts off that part of your argument.

No, the Government does NOT have the right to decide who lives and dies. Going back to the philosophical basis of our government's founding we have the philosophy of Locke, Hobbes and other social contract theorists (Jefferson lifted directly from Locke in the Declaration, and the framers used many of his ideas as well). Their social contract that man leaves the state of nature to come to the government for PROTECTION. When the government stops protecting them the government has broken the social contract and you have the right ot leave. Killing someone is about as far as one can get from protecting them. Therefore the government has no right to decidde who lives or dies. Throughout all things the ONLY thing you are guaranteed is your own life, and execution and murder deny those rights. Your assertion is complete bullshit and the kind if idea that allows murderous dictatorships to exist.