Dedication said:
I'm an analytical guy, i'm introverted and prone to seeing the big picture (even tho i'm mostly using it for my own life), other peoples emotions have very little effect over my state of being. therefore other people see me as cold and can define me as boring, the only way i'm making myself interesting and make up for this 'boring' part' is by taking action, but whenever i'm doing nothing, especially for longer periods of time, i'm just a logical deep thinker.
Having said that, i think it fits my personality to allow a death penalty. It looks so fascinating to witness it, i could kiss my children goodnight on the same day and feel nothing of it. Witnessing a death has so many advantages it just gives you a new experience thats part of nature, a reality check if you will. I'm currently not understanding whats wrong with it.
As a side note: I'm even going as far as to not give a **** if my neighbour dies or lives. Really, wtf do i care? I got nothing to do with him other then the occasional 'whats up' when i pass him. I'm not emotionally involved with him so he can have all the women and money in the world, or die in an ally, it wouldn't change my life so i'm indifferent to it.
you bring up a very astute point that i had not yet thought of.
have any of you ever read the book brave new world? if you went to school you shoudl have. in the book, there are these wars going on between these three super countries the entire book yet no one really knows anything about the wars and they are told to celebrate when they win and to be disappointed when they lose. yet, they really do not have any real connection to the war, because it does not effect them on a day to day basis, none of their kids are at war, hell they really can't even prove there is a war lol.
the truth is, death exists. death is a natural part of life and protecting us and pretending that it doesn't happen isn't going ot stop it from happening. to be it's more about going and seeing death, painful death with my own two eyes so that i can emotionally put an image with this image. it's one thing to say death, it's another to see a 90 year old grand parent die in the hosptial but to see a life cut short by a painful death, that mental image needs to be there and it's not for society.
growing up in the dark ages, half the population that was born would make it past the age of 10. by the time you were 20 years old you knew death all too well. friends died. family members died. you saw people get killed in war, hell you were probably being pillaged by barbarians, it made life more real.
now only 1 out of 50 kids will die before the age of 10. most kids can go their entire childhood and not have any one they know die and if they do it's in a hosptial somewhere and they are probaly old or what not. it's just not real if that makes any sense.
my wife and i watched a TV show on netflix a few weeks ago, Borgia which is the histirocal fiction about pope alexander the 6th (you must watch this if for antyihng to see his ass licking hot daughter. mother of god she's hot. note there are 2 shows, the borgias and borgis. borgis is the better one)
anyway, about half way through the show, the pope's son gets raped by another male while being imprisoned as a hostage. he got out of jail and did not tell one person about what happened and just dealt with the guy in due time. not even his dad the pope. never said one word to him about it.
the next eposide when the french pillaged the city of rome, the dude who got raped his mother got raped by vandals. i mean she cried and she had to go through her little deal but she has no "emotional trama" she picked up and moved on with it and carried on her day to day lives.
i watched that and was thinking man let that **** happen today the dude would be all on TV and be on all kinds of mediation and use it an excuse to start using drugs and the woman would be attention whoring it up.
as a society we are *****es becuase we don't see or experience enough things to make us emotionally hardened. this show is actually why i posted this question. there was a dude exccutred and the 2 dudes on stage took these 2 big hammers and just started mauling the dude and there were women and children in the crowd and some of the women had to turn away but they were there. hal fof them didnt' even flinch.
i do not think it'sa concidence that people back then married much younger. they were grown much younger.
one cannot seriously experience life utnil they first know death. in my drug using days i have been put in some pretty bad situtations. i've had a gun drawn on me before, i've known people who have used with me die. even worse than death i've seen with my own two eyes the effects that drugs have on people when it's not kind enough to put them out of their misery, the aimless day to day living for nothing more than drugs. no cable TV, no food in the kitchen, just drugs. ic ame out of that experience with much more zeal for life and much more zeal for the things i wish to accomplish.
it really wasnt' posed as a pro or anti death penalty question. more of why would you or why would you not. i feel all experiences, even the ones i don't care for, help me undeerstand things and provide me with motivation.
