Yes it would be, or maybe we're only semisentient? The point being were not so different than machines, hell, you could even argue that cells behave like nanites.
Why aren't we robots? We have several dozen systems that work in the background go regulate homeostasis, like a robot would if it was capable of similar functions, and we are each autonomous. Really the only real difference between ourselves and machines are that we have sentience and we are...
In my personal opinion, the LHP is more experimentation and open to personal experience while RHP is the opposite. That's honestly what it boils down to: two different approaches, each with arguable validity
Doesn't many of those depend on the decision of the defendant. They don't have to appeal. If they don't appeal, the two major costs are eliminated.
Execution is a deterrent if nothing else.
Lethal injection is ultimately more cost effective than finding new ways to rehabilitate prisoners. Not that this justifies execution, just something to think about.
I agree with it. It's a practical and sometimes a necessary course of action. No, my view is not influenced by my faith. I held this view even while I was a Christian.
Honestly, its a toss up. Religions and sects have been dying out for thousands of years. If they can't keep themselves alive, does it really matter in the grand scheme of things?
I'm going to be honest, I tried my best to consolidate Christianity with what I know about magick, even ignoring magick as best I could. But Christianity's suffocation of anything spiritual was too much for me to handle.
The problem with your arguement is that it forgets the context. Believing in God based on faith alone requires accepting that an omnipotent entity with anger issues that resulted in the deaths of thousands, if not millions, of people and the flooding of the entire planet is the deity you wish to...
Please, Christianity has also been the cause of the most horrific acts in history. The Salem Witch Trials, the Inquisitions, The Crusades, The murder and subjugation of the Indians, and the holocaust..... Just to name a few.
Of course you can't trust the bible. The between the translation errors and the political agenda that resulted in the KJV, all you can do is hope for the best or find faith elsewhere.
EDIT: It doesn't matter if only .001% of a translation is wrong, what matters is that it is wrong. Because the...