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Stu Spelling Bee

How do some states outlawing abortion simultaneously condone capital punishment? If one is “playing God,” isn’t the other?

Posted - June 25, 2022
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  • 34436
    It is not about "playing God."

    It is about protecting innocent life.
    Both the innocent life of the unborn and the innocent lives that are taken by a murderer. (You do not get death penalty unless you murdered someone) 
      June 25, 2022 3:50 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Correction: Unless you are convicted of murder. Wrongful convictions have led to numerous wrongful executions. It’s the best argument against the practice.
      June 25, 2022 3:55 PM MDT
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  • 34436
    Semanics....you know what I was talking about.

    Point is you do not get the death penalty unless a life was lost.  This post was edited by my2cents at June 27, 2022 5:49 AM MDT
      June 25, 2022 4:07 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    Innocent people being executed by the state is nothing but semantics, Stu. Or it's fake news, never really happened. Or, this so-called "innocent" person probably killed someone else or broke some other law and deserved it. Or maybe it doesn't matter unless it's someone I know or someone whose life I deem worthy to give a fig about. Because that's what Jesus would do! 

    :)



      June 30, 2022 4:24 PM MDT
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  • 126
    I'm trying to work out how you protect the innocent life of someone already murdered.
      July 1, 2022 1:24 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    How does capital punishment do that?
      July 1, 2022 2:09 AM MDT
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  • 34436
    It prevents the convicted murderer from murdering another innocent life.
      July 1, 2022 5:58 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    But he said protecting the life of the murder victim. Nothing can bring that person back. And a life sentence prevents more murders as well.
      July 1, 2022 7:36 AM MDT
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  • 34436
    I guess you believe  no gets murdered in prison....

    No one is claiming, it protects or brings back the original murdered victim.   (See both my post above and Gino's below) 
    But it likely prevents another person from being  murdered by the same criminal. (Be it in the world or while in prison)
      July 2, 2022 4:51 AM MDT
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  • 126
    It definitely doesn't bring the murder victim back. I mean, the idea of resurrection is simply ridiculous.....oh!
      July 3, 2022 1:59 AM MDT
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  • 34436
    Believe what you want.   We will all know what it true.....

    Every knee will bow, every tongue will confess Jesus is Lord. 
      July 3, 2022 9:40 AM MDT
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  • 126
    It doesn't, that's what I was trying to work out.
      July 2, 2022 1:05 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    Good luck with that!
      July 2, 2022 3:02 AM MDT
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  • 126
    It's a near impossibility!
      July 3, 2022 2:00 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    LOL!
      July 1, 2022 7:51 PM MDT
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  • 126
    Your post should get deleted based on AM's respect other users rule
      July 2, 2022 1:11 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    Wait... what? LOL is disrespectful? And here I thought it should be deleted because it's 'non-responsive and doesn't contribute to the discussion'.... or some such sh*t. 

    LOL!
      July 2, 2022 7:38 AM MDT
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  • 126
    It's both disrespectful and conversationally neutral. I have 70+ removals proving the point :-) 
      July 3, 2022 2:02 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    LOL!
      July 3, 2022 12:55 PM MDT
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  • 126
    You rebel!
      July 4, 2022 1:41 AM MDT
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  • 5451

    The question makes sense to me.  Being anti-abortion and pro-death penalty at the same time doesn’t make any sense to me, but the obverse is also true.  Supporting legalized abortion and opposing the death penalty at the same time also doesn’t make any sense to me, but I have a minority opinion.  

    Currently, states that are truly pro-life are also a minority.  There are only two of them, North Dakota and West Virginia.  There are four if you count Michigan and Wisconsin.  Neither has the death penalty and both have pre-1973 abortion restrictions which were never taken off the books.  It remains to be seen if they’ll enforce them or not.


    This post was edited by Livvie at June 28, 2022 4:48 PM MDT
      June 25, 2022 4:31 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    I completely agree!
      June 25, 2022 4:36 PM MDT
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  • 23641


    Yes, I agree with you. If abortion is wrong, capital punishment should be, too.

    Perhaps it may not be playing God but, to me, it makes no sense-- and life is life to me.

    I don't quite get the logic with capital punishment:

    "We, the government, will show everyone that killing people/taking a life is wrong by killing people/taking a life."




    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at June 28, 2022 4:48 PM MDT
      June 25, 2022 5:15 PM MDT
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  • 11089
    Because both laws are not about protecting life, they are about exerting control and restricting freedom. I would elaborate, but I  just don't have the bandwidth today to cope with comments from the peanut gallery.
      June 25, 2022 6:29 PM MDT
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