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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    In your utopia you are likely to be one of the slaves. And I a Master.
    In my Utopia, robots and machines will do almost all work. Humans will not have to work.

    How many of us will live to see such civilization?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CCitizen View Post
    In my Utopia, robots and machines will do almost all work. Humans will not have to work.

    How many of us will live to see such civilization?
    None of us.

    It exists only in your head. You will be a slave.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


    I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CCitizen View Post
    This argument is at least 250 years old. King George III believed and legislated that murderers should be tortured to death and traitors starved to death. Several thousand American Rebels captured by Britain were in fact starved to death.

    George Washington and Thomas Jefferson abolished Cruel Punishment even for the worst criminals like pirates who have drowned many victims. Of course, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson also had great character faults.
    I believe "hobbling" should be the punishment for jaywalkers

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    Quote Originally Posted by bulletbob View Post
    I do have some mercey in my heart for certin killers such as a crime of passion when a lover catchs another with their mate in bed or a rapist of their wife or children a killer of their family members . Life in prison under human conditions is acceptable to me with these crimes .this however is rare most murders are not going to fall into these categories.


    Excellent point, there, Bob.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    I believe "hobbling" should be the punishment for jaywalkers
    Jaywalkers as drug users as anyone who does dangerous staff inflict enough punishment on themselves. A risk of being killed or handicapped.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CCitizen View Post
    This argument is at least 250 years old. King George III believed and legislated that murderers should be tortured to death and traitors starved to death. Several thousand American Rebels captured by Britain were in fact starved to death.

    George Washington and Thomas Jefferson abolished Cruel Punishment even for the worst criminals like pirates who have drowned many victims. Of course, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson also had great character faults.


    When you are done with your ancient strawman construction, I would like to continue asking for an actual answer as to why you feel murderous monsters should be treated nicely.

    You have yet to answer this question.

    It was a personal question directed to you....not King George.

    Why do you feel murderous monsters should be treated nicely?
    They certainly did not treat their victims very nicely.

    I would appreciate it if you confined your answer to this country, this time period, and to your own thoughts.
    When it is not allowed to be questioned, it is not science, it is PROPAGANDA

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    Quote Originally Posted by Retirednsmilin308 View Post
    When you are done with your ancient strawman construction, I would like to continue asking for an actual answer as to why you feel murderous monsters should be treated nicely. You have yet to answer this question. It was a personal question directed to you....not King George. Why do you feel murderous monsters should be treated nicely? They certainly did not treat their victims very nicely. I would appreciate it if you confined your answer to this country, this time period, and to your own thoughts.
    The issues of Right and Wrong can not be proved or disproved. All I can say is that Humanitarians opposed Torture for the last 3,300 years. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson also opposed torture even for the worst criminals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Retirednsmilin308 View Post
    Just stepping in for a second, then back out to the salt mines.
    I JUST HAD to comment on this one....seeing how I was alive back then.


    Hmm....there was more bad than good in the 50's.

    NO AIR CONDITIONING !!!! You had this big assed fan in the attic that only sucked up hot humid air from outside. made it hard to sleep at night.
    One famous soul singer said it best...." He was cooler than the underside of your pillow". Few get that meaning today, but I do.

    NO AIR CONDITIONING IN YOUR CAR....take the heat of the house and multiply it by 5. ...and driving faster does not help. Cars even had little side windows up front to try and blow some air to the back seat. They blew air alright. That same hot humid air that was outside.

    The heat and humidity killed lots of people it does not kill today.


    Yes, there were some really good things about the 50's too.

    Drive Ins. What teenager did not learn about the anatomy of the opposite sex at one of those?

    Big fat juicy cheeseburgers that gushed all over you.

    REAL malts.

    The music was awesome.

    hundreds of B&W "big bug" monster movies.

    Saturday morning cartoons. Real cartoons, but one anime battle scene after another. Give me a piano falling on Elmer Fudd any day over that crap.

    If you were not home and the phone rang, you MISSED THE CALL!

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    That little window in the front made to direct incoming air to the rear passengers was called "Wind wing"...
    Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I digress....

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    Quote Originally Posted by AZ Jim View Post
    That little window in the front made to direct incoming air to the rear passengers was called "Wind wing"...
    Cool. I never knew that it had a name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Retirednsmilin308 View Post
    ...and where exactly should I mail the check for your most unqualified psychiatric evaluation?


    Yet you are the one out of control in your anger and your profanity.

    Fly that flag high. Let everyone see the monsters lurking just beneath your surface.
    She is a problem. I miss her like a wart.
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