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And I don't mean literal ones. Seriously. It seems for just about every type of crime: "death! off with their head! kill him! sentence him to death!" Seriously, what good will killing someone do? Maybe the crime is murder. Will taking his or her life bring the dead back to life? No. Killing a murderer does absolutely no good. At all. All it will do is cause more pain for his or her family. Pain begets pain. Sorrow begets sorrow. Death begets death.
People are so...bloodthirsty...both literal, and figuratively. Why are people taking pleasure in watching others die? (Games excluded, those are bits of data.) The media gets ratings and revenue from people sentenced to death. And people get a guilty pleasure out of it, whether they'll admit it or not.
We have the highest jail rate(Dunno if China's is higher, can't remember), and last I checked, highest death punishment rate in the world(I may be a tad off on this, correct me if I am...).
My question to you guys is: Why? Why so seri-bloodthirsty? It's as if...if someone does just one thing you don't like, you're crowing for blood... And if it's not our fucked up judicial system doing it, it's people taking matters into their owns hands. Which is that much worse...
Highest jail rate, and that jail rate is paid for by the working class.
Highest death penalty rate(Excluding China, for sure...), again, paid by the working class. Death is expensive, people, both psychological and monetarily.
For as much as people like to say we're better, just how much better are we then...say...China? North Korea? I can't say we're all together much better then them. IT's as if we're in the dark ages again...quite literally, you can't trust anyone anymore...;-; Heck, the IRS is doing a new(?) thing where if you know someone is cheating on taxes, you can turn them in and get MONEY for that. Now they're turning people against each other? And the sad thing is, people are doing it! Yet more bloodthirst. Yeah, I'm rambling, but oh well.
People say we have rights? What rights? Certainly none that I see. "Right to marry who you want." Yeah. Tell that to a Christian then mention gays, lesbians, the like. Let's see what happens.
Freedom of Speech: Not really. If the government doesn't like something, it can, it will, and it has censored stuff.
Freedom of Religion: Definate no. Here, it's either you're a goddamn christian or it's gtfo. There's no freedom of religion here. Don't think there ever was. Yeah, you can practice it. But really...at the rate things are going...how much long before Christians, Catholics, Muslims, any of them..., decide they've had enough. Theres absolutely no tolerence. And don't try sugar coating it. It's a fact. Just look at GLBT rights.
Freedom of Press: Again, not really. If someone doesn't like it, one way or the other, it'll get demolished(not talking about buildings).
Freedom of Assembly: Uh-huh. No. You can organize, but if the government doesn't like it, they'll shut you down. Heck, if no one else cares, they may STILL shut you down. It's disgusting.
Then there's the whole busted up Patent system. You "infringe" on a patent, rest assured, whoever it is will try, and most likely succeed, and bleed you dry. I'm looking at you, Apple. And you, Nintendo. Hell, any big business has done it at least once.
Oh yes, did I mention suing? You can sue, and I've seen it happen, for someone looking at you wrong. Seriously. Is that what we're reduced to? Petty squabbles that can easily ruin someones life for decades? Come on, people...
I don't know about Europe, or Asia, or whatever, but I can honestly say this country is falling. Fast. And hard. And it sucks. You can get sued, jailed, or even executed, for just about anything these days. I honestly thought we'd gotten out of the dark ages, but thinking about it, we haven't. It's just sugar coated.
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And I don't mean literal ones. Seriously. It seems for just about every type of crime: "death! off with their head! kill him! sentence him to death!" Seriously, what good will killing someone do? Maybe the crime is murder. Will taking his or her life bring the dead back to life? No. Killing a murderer does absolutely no good. At all. All it will do is cause more pain for his or her family. Pain begets pain. Sorrow begets sorrow. Death begets death.
People are so...bloodthirsty...both literal, and figuratively. Why are people taking pleasure in watching others die? (Games excluded, those are bits of data.) The media gets ratings and revenue from people sentenced to death. And people get a guilty pleasure out of it, whether they'll admit it or not.
We have the highest jail rate(Dunno if China's is higher, can't remember), and last I checked, highest death punishment rate in the world(I may be a tad off on this, correct me if I am...).
My question to you guys is: Why? Why so seri-bloodthirsty? It's as if...if someone does just one thing you don't like, you're crowing for blood... And if it's not our fucked up judicial system doing it, it's people taking matters into their owns hands. Which is that much worse...
Highest jail rate, and that jail rate is paid for by the working class.
Highest death penalty rate(Excluding China, for sure...), again, paid by the working class. Death is expensive, people, both psychological and monetarily.
For as much as people like to say we're better, just how much better are we then...say...China? North Korea? I can't say we're all together much better then them. IT's as if we're in the dark ages again...quite literally, you can't trust anyone anymore...;-; Heck, the IRS is doing a new(?) thing where if you know someone is cheating on taxes, you can turn them in and get MONEY for that. Now they're turning people against each other? And the sad thing is, people are doing it! Yet more bloodthirst. Yeah, I'm rambling, but oh well.
People say we have rights? What rights? Certainly none that I see. "Right to marry who you want." Yeah. Tell that to a Christian then mention gays, lesbians, the like. Let's see what happens.
Freedom of Speech: Not really. If the government doesn't like something, it can, it will, and it has censored stuff.
Freedom of Religion: Definate no. Here, it's either you're a goddamn christian or it's gtfo. There's no freedom of religion here. Don't think there ever was. Yeah, you can practice it. But really...at the rate things are going...how much long before Christians, Catholics, Muslims, any of them..., decide they've had enough. Theres absolutely no tolerence. And don't try sugar coating it. It's a fact. Just look at GLBT rights.
Freedom of Press: Again, not really. If someone doesn't like it, one way or the other, it'll get demolished(not talking about buildings).
Freedom of Assembly: Uh-huh. No. You can organize, but if the government doesn't like it, they'll shut you down. Heck, if no one else cares, they may STILL shut you down. It's disgusting.
Then there's the whole busted up Patent system. You "infringe" on a patent, rest assured, whoever it is will try, and most likely succeed, and bleed you dry. I'm looking at you, Apple. And you, Nintendo. Hell, any big business has done it at least once.
Oh yes, did I mention suing? You can sue, and I've seen it happen, for someone looking at you wrong. Seriously. Is that what we're reduced to? Petty squabbles that can easily ruin someones life for decades? Come on, people...
I don't know about Europe, or Asia, or whatever, but I can honestly say this country is falling. Fast. And hard. And it sucks. You can get sued, jailed, or even executed, for just about anything these days. I honestly thought we'd gotten out of the dark ages, but thinking about it, we haven't. It's just sugar coated.
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