Terry Schiavo fiasco

[Weltall]

Ryan, these are the people who kill doctors to save unborn fetuses. Don't try to make any sense of them, they're nutjobs.

I don't get that, either.

This issue was certainly becoming political near the end, and I don't really like how either side handled it. Moreover, I don't think either side SHOULD have handled it.

As for the death penalty, I don't really care how much of a punishment it really is, that's not the point. I once suggested what I thought was a great alternative, one that would serve as a great punishment (the idea of hard forced labor), but failing that, the death penalty I believe serves less to punish the criminal than it does to remove their taint from the rest of society. When you attack a cancer, you don't do it to punish the tumor, you do it to heal the host. Left alive, a criminal is a constant burden on a society he has already wronged, for it costs a lot of money to keep someone alive and breathing for years and years. We, as law-abiding members of society, who pay our taxes and play by the rules, should not have to let our hard-earned money be used to feed some disgusting nutsack who wantonly steals someone's life. I believe that by taking someone else's life, you forfeit your own. They have already caused direct misery to someone, they should not be kept alive to further punish the rest of us by forcing us to pay to keep their worthless hearts beating.