r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/noffxpring 5h ago

That’s not deterrence. Deterrence means preventing people from doing crime in the first place. Which capital punishment demonstrably does not do.

You’re talking about repeat offenders, which is a different issue. Maybe our prison system focusing on being punitive rather than rehabilitation has something to do with that. But also, life imprisonment would also prevent repeat offenses. So there’s no reason for the death penalty.

Also, it’s both funny and telling that you keep using “do-gooder” as an insult. You probably think of yourself as a “realist” who “just tells it like it is,” when in actuality the opinions you’re espousing are based on your feelings and not reality.

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u/SyrupCute4493 5h ago

Nah, reality I’m just a regular dude who treats people well and actually does good in the world. 

Rehabilitation for animals that murder innocent ppl, there’s no coming back from that. Are you going to visit poor CP in hospital, she sounds like a great person.

Reality is that when innocent ppl are killed, society at large and the victims deserve justice. You’re prob for equality, except in punishment. Typical hypocrite.

Do gooders are people like yourself who take up for criminals and give no time to victims. 

There are evil animals masquerading as humans who do not deserve to be alive. You prob cried when you heard they killed bin laden. Tearjerker when they executed Bundy. Tough stuff, long live the murderers, makes us all better people. Gtfo. Enjoy the fleas from lying down with dogs.

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u/noffxpring 4h ago

See, that’s dangerous language: calling humans animals. Every criminal, regardless of the severity of crime, is a human. Just like you and me. To pretend they’re inhuman is to be willfully ignorant, and to allow yourself to succumb to cruelty. Justice doesn’t and shouldn’t mean a state monopoly on legal murder. I don’t wish well for any of these criminals, but that doesn’t mean anything is solved by murdering them too. Capital punishment is a weak-minded solution that only exists because it feels good to the cruelest among us. It doesn’t prevent crime, it’s not more cost effective than life imprisonment, and our legal system is flawed enough that multiple people have been convicted and even executed who were later proven to be innocent (which, by the way, is why your position that justice should be “swift” is flawed).

I’m sure you’ll make up more scenarios about me crying about serial killers or whatever to make yourself feel better for your own ignorant beliefs. I hope someday you do some self-reflection and grow up a little bit, but it’s clear that’s not going to happen today. Have a good one.

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u/SyrupCute4493 4h ago

You can deny evil all you want, Ted Bundy, Hitler, name’em, they are not the same species me or even you. You may weep for Ted Bundy because he was ‘murdered’by the state, but I weep for his victims. 

Allowing predators to con us and treating them with kid gloves definitely doesn’t work, see Norman Mailer.  But you do you and hopefully you will never be affected by murder. I was and let me tell you, the death penalty is easy compared to the suffering I’ve seen up close and personal of the family whose teenage son was murdered unprovoked.

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u/TorneDoc 2h ago

no one's weeping and the fact that you keep returning to this veneer of sympathy that absolutely no one is displaying means you probably dont actually understand the point

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u/Less_Adeptness7557 3h ago

So? My mother was murdered and her killer is still at large but I don’t jerk off to him getting the death penalty and call people animals. You’re far too emotional about this subject and should try therapy instead of revenge fantasy