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  1. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    How about you, @Pegg Would you be the one to kill a man? Would you be the executioner?
  2. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    Are you saying that what stops you from murdering is this "divine justice" thing? Cos I don't believe in any sort of divine justice, yet I'd never want to kill someone. And nor do I steal, cheat etc etc... You don't need to be killing people to prevent others from doing the same
  3. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    So between the two of us, a man condemned to death would still be alive, huh? :)
  4. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    Would you volunteer to be the one to inject the man in the chair? I'm sure it's easy to support executions when there's someone else to do the act for you. Would you kill a man...?
  5. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    Do you include the judge, jury and executioner in that last statement, or do you conveniently ignore them - the fact that we are also animals aside. I may be ignorant on the matter, but to my knowledge no other animal kills it's own kind for some perverted sense of "justice". In my country...
  6. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    Oh, good :) I don't much like arguing ^_^ On a side note... I don't feel that simply calling something asinine and nonsensical neither makes it so, nor is it much of ah argument either...,;)
  7. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    I don't think I said that at all. Or at least, not what I meant. Whether you're using a bat or a needle, whether the law says you're allowed to or not, whether you're motivated by drugs, revenge, or warped sense of justice, you are killing a person - you are intending to end the existence of...
  8. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    They both are intending to kill a person - to end their existence, no? Only real difference is that one is doing it within the law.
  9. methylatedghosts

    Leaving

    Yes, that is one solution, but not the one I was looking for
  10. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    Executing guy 1 won't prevent guy 2 from murdering someone. All it does is stop guy 1 from murdering - something also achievable by keeping him in prison and giving him greater access to rehab
  11. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    Releasing a man from prison who then goes on to murder another person is not a problem solved by execution either. That's a parole board issue mostly, and I'm not convinced that released prisoners are given adequate rehabilitation either. Prison escapes are also not solved by executing the...
  12. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    why is that? To me, saying "I'll kill you for killing him", that eye-for-an-eye mentality is rather primitive, and does very little to solve the problem itself
  13. methylatedghosts

    Leaving

    I've noticed, while using my Android phone, that yes the ads load last, and no, the page doesn't load slower, but what REALLY is beginning to bug me is that when I've already scrolled halfway down the page, an ad finishes loading and it jumps me right back to the top of the page again. So I...
  14. methylatedghosts

    another botched execution.

    If you put the guy in prison after the first murder, you'd have the same result, only now there's just 1 dead person instead of 3. To me, executing someone puts you at the same level as them. Even lower because while just as cold and calculated, you don't have the excuse of poor upbringing or...
  15. methylatedghosts

    Parallel Universe Ideas

    Read some China Miéville. He's pretty good at describing indescribable things. Perdido Street Station would be a good one to start with
  16. methylatedghosts

    Parallel Universe Ideas

    So the main character is travelling between these realities? I'd suggest imagining for the character the things they might experience and how that would translate to this reality. I can only imagine that so many of those experiences would simply be so abstract, so different, that in our...
  17. methylatedghosts

    Do Avatars Govern Our Perceptions Of Posters?

    I've wondered before what impression my avatar makes. I haven't changed it the whole time I've been on here
  18. methylatedghosts

    Your super villain name and title

    Introducing... Infinity Wizard, Pestilence of Metropolis
  19. methylatedghosts

    Reasons Americastan Is Better Than Australiastan!

    Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
  20. methylatedghosts

    Monosodium Glutamate

    What makes it so tasty is the -glutamate. When I was at university, there was a lecture on msg and the theorised "umami" taste receptor. From what I remember, it would be beneficial in evolutionary terms to have a taste for glutamate - a nerve cell messenger, that shows up throughout the brain...
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