Beast Of Burson wrote:mrswdk wrote:'Extra legal' is a term used by people who want to avoid saying 'illegal'
Extra-Legal is not illegal. It means Outside of the law. Illegal and extra legal are 2 different animals all together.
extra-terrestrial... "outside" of a planet
extra-marital affair.... having sex with somebody "outside" of your marriage.
Doesn't mean something is illegal.
Insider trading had no laws providing for it. Big Joe Kennedy made some of his fortune off of this, then when he became a Senator, he pushed to have the loophole closed. When he did it, it wasn't illegal... it was just "outside" the law at the time.
Now it is "inside" the written laws. Which means it is illegal to do it.
As far as torture goes:
Do I think SOME people deserve to be tortured for the things they have done? Abso-fucking-lutely! Is it allowed by Societal standards in the 21st century? Absolutely not.
What Duk is saying is that we cannot punish all crimes with the system we have created because there are too many loopholes allowing for these people to continue acting the fool. So do we just keep letting them do things against society because the current punishments do not work?
How many times do you see third time offenders go right back to jail? All the time here in the US.
Now tell me why MY tax dollars should support a person, that obviously will never stop what they are doing, because they know the punishment is a joke?
This should be the norm:
1st time, shame on you. Do your time
2nd time, you get twice the sentence.
3rd time, execution. You are a waste of skin and the taxpayers should not have to be burden with your upkeep.
Some people just don't care. Swift and severe punishment IS the ONLY answer.
Think - Clockwork Orange.
so....someone gets caught 3 times for non-violent petty crime and we execute them?
That's some real fucked up thinking.