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14 Jun 2012, 3:43 pm

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I am dying to see it repealed.

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:lol:


At last! Someone got the joke. Thank you.

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your welcome :D



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14 Jun 2012, 3:44 pm

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I refuse to view myself as a animal their for I do not nor will I agree that human beings are animals.


your logic is unassailable....... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


So is your trolling :lol:


That word is suffering from over-use. I'm dying to see that word stricken from our vocabulary.


agreed :)



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14 Jun 2012, 3:52 pm

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I refuse to view myself as a animal their for I do not nor will I agree that human beings are animals.
How is it then, I wonder, that our DNA is 98.6% the same as that of the other great apes?



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14 Jun 2012, 4:02 pm

Aren't we stones nor vegetables?

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14 Jun 2012, 4:30 pm

SpiritBlooms wrote:
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I refuse to view myself as a animal their for I do not nor will I agree that human beings are animals.
How is it then, I wonder, that our DNA is 98.6% the same as that of the other great apes?


Human DNA and Monkey DNA is 50% the same that is only half it's not 100%



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14 Jun 2012, 4:38 pm

Joker wrote:
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I refuse to view myself as a animal their for I do not nor will I agree that human beings are animals.
How is it then, I wonder, that our DNA is 98.6% the same as that of the other great apes?


Human DNA and Monkey DNA is 50% the same that is only half it's not 100%
Monkeys are not apes.



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14 Jun 2012, 4:41 pm

SpiritBlooms wrote:
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I refuse to view myself as a animal their for I do not nor will I agree that human beings are animals.
How is it then, I wonder, that our DNA is 98.6% the same as that of the other great apes?


Human DNA and Monkey DNA is 50% the same that is only half it's not 100%
Monkeys are not apes.


That is besides the point plus this thread is about your views on the death penalty.



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14 Jun 2012, 6:11 pm

Those crowds at the GOP debates, booing gay soldiers and cheering executions - where did they find those people?



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14 Jun 2012, 6:16 pm

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Those crowds at the GOP debates, booing gay soldiers and cheering executions - where did they find those people?


They find them in the deepest parts of the south. Thank goodness that I live in North Carolina.



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14 Jun 2012, 6:19 pm

Joker wrote:
SpiritBlooms wrote:
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I refuse to view myself as a animal their for I do not nor will I agree that human beings are animals.
How is it then, I wonder, that our DNA is 98.6% the same as that of the other great apes?


Human DNA and Monkey DNA is 50% the same that is only half it's not 100%


That can't be true. A petunia is at 50%, a mouse at 80%, or something like that. Order of magnitudes, i'm not bothered with checking them up, i'm confident i don't talk nonsense. The monkeys are surely over 90% .


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14 Jun 2012, 6:24 pm

Quantum_Immortal wrote:
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I refuse to view myself as a animal their for I do not nor will I agree that human beings are animals.
How is it then, I wonder, that our DNA is 98.6% the same as that of the other great apes?


Human DNA and Monkey DNA is 50% the same that is only half it's not 100%


That can't be true. A petunia is at 50%, a mouse at 80%, or something like that. Order of magnitudes, i'm not bothered with checking them up, i'm confident i don't talk nonsense. The monkeys are surely over 90% .


Nope I am afriad it is 50% plus this thread is about your views on the death penalty.



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14 Jun 2012, 6:55 pm

i checked a couple of pages back of posts. Are you sure you aren't trolling a bit? Every body does that a little from time to time. It sure fits with your name and avatar.


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14 Jun 2012, 7:08 pm

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i checked a couple of pages back of posts. Are you sure you aren't trolling a bit? Every body does that a little from time to time. It sure fits with your name and avatar.


I do only to annoy people for my own entertainment



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14 Jun 2012, 9:03 pm

The death penalty is wrong because it encourages mean-spiritedness and values vengeance above forgiveness.



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14 Jun 2012, 9:15 pm

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The death penalty is wrong because it encourages mean-spiritedness and values vengeance above forgiveness.


That is very subjective. A more cogent objection is that the death penalty is sometimes executed on innocent people. It is a form of "friendly fire" in the war against crime.

There are two ways of addressing this problem: One way is to say - oh well, such is the cost of dealing with real bad guys.

Another way is to not put people to death but to remove them from our midst effectively and permanently. For example, remotely located penal colonies. If perchance an innocent is sent away, he can be retrieved.

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