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Thread: Paladins choice

  1. 2010-04-12, 06:40 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #99
    taltamir
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    Default Re: Paladins choice

    Quote Originally Posted by Deme View Post
    Not to mention, couldn't you punish or kill Bob the child rapist in a detterent-y way (even though I'm not sure myself how effective that idea is, I'm just running with it) without actually torturing him? It's sometimes a fine line, I admit...but sometimes it's not a very fine line at all.
    Maybe you could... do you have a specific suggestion?
    Recall some people argue that capital punishment in of itself is always wrong and that killing should never be a deterrent; the whole torture as a deterrent is just taking it one step further.

    I totally accept that my belief on the subject is not the only one and that some people genuinely believe that what I think to be "good" is "evil" and that what I think to be "evil" is "good" and that my values are in no way universal (my values just happen to be the correct ones and theirs are the incorrect ones *wink*).
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