Dragaera

The Nuclear family

Sat Feb 12 20:34:04 PST 2005


On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, lazarus wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:31:38 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
> >
> >On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Steve Brust wrote:
> >>
> >> 1. Backward nations have not yet abandoned the barbaric practice of
> >> capital punishment.
> >
> >This is more or less a religious argument - I happen to oppose capital
> >punishment, but experience shows that such nations are capable of
> >responsible possesion of nukes.
>
> But capital punishment is still a barbaric practise.

Some might say that the practice of raising animals for slaughter
is barbaric.  Or abortion.  Or worshipping gods.  Or contact sports.
Or girl's gymnastics at the ruin-the-skeleton level.  Or burning
hydrocarbons.  Or spending time reading books and discussing them
instead of devoting those hours to improving the lot of the downtrodden.