The fact is, the French situation is not good, everybody agrees upon this point.
But, if I believe what I read here, it seems that my country is in the midst of
a civil war and that I failed to notice it.
As to the reliability of information in the United States, on one occasion CNN
situated, on a broadcsted map, Paris somewhere in the east of the country while
it is in the center, and the city of Strasbourg they put somewhere in
Germany.
Furthermore, De Gaulle was not in the least a socialist but rather
anti-socialist and fiercely anti-communist. Our last socialist president was
François Mitterand with two mandates from 1981 to 1988 and 1988 to
1995, and then the most of the time the parliament was in the opposition
then.
But then I guess my information about France is less reliable than CNN's very
own, I only live here.
Indifference, as a perception of the world is devoid of moral value.
Indifference, as in inaction when faced with "evil" or
"good" is in itself a course of action.
I put "evil" and "good" between quotation marks because
these are subjective notions. On a social level, from which these notions
originate, inaction and indiference are probably harmful in most situations one
can imagine, while acting "evil" is systematically harmful.
As a human being, and thus on a purely personnal and internal basis, acting is
without doubt better than inaction. For action, whatever the nature of the
action, is proof of being alive.
Elessar007, thanks for actually looking in the matter.
If more than a hundred death row inmates are proven innocent later, or somehow
proved as not deserving their earlier condemnation, if this many people were
condemned to death wrongly and later discovered innocent, how many were wrongly
condemned and NOT found innocent until too late.
Death penalty is not justice it is merely the slaking of base bloodlust and
catering to our basest instincts.
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human have the right to take i live, so death penalty is like fight fire with
fire, but i support it because some poeple just cannot be reinserted into
society and has to pay somehow for their crimes.
Are you not contradicting yourself ? I do not know if what you meant is actually
what you wrote, but if it is so does it not strike you as somewhat
nonsensical?
Indeed some people are a threat to society and must be removed from it, but how
does killing somebody because he killed is more justifiable that killing wives
cheating on their husbands? You might answer me that the offenses do not bear
comparison, but then, they do. Death penalty is employed worldwide, and not just
for killers, rapists and torturers. And the core argument each and every time is
"they deserved it".
Who, are we to say who shall live and who shall die? What does "making them
pay for their crimes" achieves ? Criminals condemned are not bad children
punished by being sent to bed, they simply are threats removed untill they do
not represent a threat to society anymore.
We are, I think, not to judge what is "good" from what is
"evil".
We are not morally perfect beings, otherwise morality would be an absolute which
sociologist failed to discoverover the last few centuries.
If fire fighting fire is so effective, why then do firemen still carry water?
I think with distributions such as Ubuntu, as long as you get a bit of help
during the installation you should be fine. Linux does require a litlle know-how
but recent distributions are more and more user friendly and made with the
general public in mind. Furthermore, many tutorials, help pages and such can be
found on the net. And most of them are accurate and well made.
One error people around the globe often commit is seing the U.S.A as a
monolithic entity. I do not believe there is much in common between people
living in Minnessotta, people living in New Jersey and people living in Alaska.
Some aspects of the American culture seem at best questionnable to the rest of
the world, but mostly it is the current foreign policy of the U.S which raise
suspicion. More importantly, this policy spreads dissent between the developped
countries and fosters fanatics of all stripes in their hate.
The U.S governement positioning itself as the sole defenser of anything
"good" or "right" really grates on the nerves of just about
averybody.
It has been proved that the best deterrant is not in the harshness of the
penalty but rather in the certainty of being caught.
I am against it. Who has the right to claim the life of another? Judiciary
systems, fundamentally, do not try to do whatever is "right" and
punish what is "wrong", they applicate the law : "right" and
"wrong" are subjective while the law is an attempt at objectivity.
Criminals are not children to be punished, they are threats to the social
structure. Do you really want to live in a society whose response to threats is
destroying them?
The whole "you killed so you shall be killed" stance is infantile. It
reminds me of kids yelling "But he did it first!". What does the
execution of a criminal achieves? Yes, indeed, he will not do whatever he did
again, but neither would he if sentenced to prison.
"I don't want to pay taxes feeding an imprisonned killer" yes, it is
so much more mature and responsible to kill people and justify it, even in part,
with the argument of conveniency...
As to the efficiency of linux, this site is hosted on a server which runs a
gentoo linux.
The fact is, starting to use linux takes a little learning, but once you are
used to it there is no comparison possible. The core difference is : do you want
windows to control what happens on your computer or do you want to control it
yourself.
Furthermore, some versions of linux have over 15000 programs available, most of
them for free
The fact is, the French situation is not good, everybody agrees upon this point. But, if I believe what I read here, it seems that my country is in the midst of a civil war and that I failed to notice it.
As to the reliability of information in the United States, on one occasion CNN situated, on a broadcsted map, Paris somewhere in the east of the country while it is in the center, and the city of Strasbourg they put somewhere in Germany.
Furthermore, De Gaulle was not in the least a socialist but rather anti-socialist and fiercely anti-communist. Our last socialist president was François Mitterand with two mandates from 1981 to 1988 and 1988 to 1995, and then the most of the time the parliament was in the opposition then.
But then I guess my information about France is less reliable than CNN's very own, I only live here.
Indifference, as a perception of the world is devoid of moral value. Indifference, as in inaction when faced with "evil" or "good" is in itself a course of action.
I put "evil" and "good" between quotation marks because these are subjective notions. On a social level, from which these notions originate, inaction and indiference are probably harmful in most situations one can imagine, while acting "evil" is systematically harmful.
As a human being, and thus on a purely personnal and internal basis, acting is without doubt better than inaction. For action, whatever the nature of the action, is proof of being alive.
Elessar007, thanks for actually looking in the matter.
If more than a hundred death row inmates are proven innocent later, or somehow proved as not deserving their earlier condemnation, if this many people were condemned to death wrongly and later discovered innocent, how many were wrongly condemned and NOT found innocent until too late.
Death penalty is not justice it is merely the slaking of base bloodlust and catering to our basest instincts.
Are you not contradicting yourself ? I do not know if what you meant is actually what you wrote, but if it is so does it not strike you as somewhat nonsensical?
Indeed some people are a threat to society and must be removed from it, but how does killing somebody because he killed is more justifiable that killing wives cheating on their husbands? You might answer me that the offenses do not bear comparison, but then, they do. Death penalty is employed worldwide, and not just for killers, rapists and torturers. And the core argument each and every time is "they deserved it".
Who, are we to say who shall live and who shall die? What does "making them pay for their crimes" achieves ? Criminals condemned are not bad children punished by being sent to bed, they simply are threats removed untill they do not represent a threat to society anymore.
We are, I think, not to judge what is "good" from what is "evil".
We are not morally perfect beings, otherwise morality would be an absolute which sociologist failed to discoverover the last few centuries.
If fire fighting fire is so effective, why then do firemen still carry water?
I think with distributions such as Ubuntu, as long as you get a bit of help during the installation you should be fine. Linux does require a litlle know-how but recent distributions are more and more user friendly and made with the general public in mind. Furthermore, many tutorials, help pages and such can be found on the net. And most of them are accurate and well made.
One error people around the globe often commit is seing the U.S.A as a monolithic entity. I do not believe there is much in common between people living in Minnessotta, people living in New Jersey and people living in Alaska. Some aspects of the American culture seem at best questionnable to the rest of the world, but mostly it is the current foreign policy of the U.S which raise suspicion. More importantly, this policy spreads dissent between the developped countries and fosters fanatics of all stripes in their hate.
The U.S governement positioning itself as the sole defenser of anything "good" or "right" really grates on the nerves of just about averybody.
It has been proved that the best deterrant is not in the harshness of the penalty but rather in the certainty of being caught.
I am against it. Who has the right to claim the life of another? Judiciary systems, fundamentally, do not try to do whatever is "right" and punish what is "wrong", they applicate the law : "right" and "wrong" are subjective while the law is an attempt at objectivity. Criminals are not children to be punished, they are threats to the social structure. Do you really want to live in a society whose response to threats is destroying them?
The whole "you killed so you shall be killed" stance is infantile. It reminds me of kids yelling "But he did it first!". What does the execution of a criminal achieves? Yes, indeed, he will not do whatever he did again, but neither would he if sentenced to prison.
"I don't want to pay taxes feeding an imprisonned killer" yes, it is so much more mature and responsible to kill people and justify it, even in part, with the argument of conveniency...
Gentoo linux. Why pay for something when you have better for free?
Plus the open source community is great.
As to the efficiency of linux, this site is hosted on a server which runs a gentoo linux.
The fact is, starting to use linux takes a little learning, but once you are used to it there is no comparison possible. The core difference is : do you want windows to control what happens on your computer or do you want to control it yourself.
Furthermore, some versions of linux have over 15000 programs available, most of them for free