My argument for the death penalty...

[Hopper]

That's what I expected.

Glad I didn't disappoint ya, then, eh, Biley? Just outta curiousity, do you teach 2nd grade or sumthin? Are you used to pronouncin the "right" answer, refusin to discuss the matter, and callin any kid who questions your infallibility an "idiot," that it?

 

[billyshelby]

Glad I didn't disappoint ya, then, eh, Biley? Just outta curiousity, do you teach 2nd grade or sumthin? Are you used to pronouncin the "right" answer, refusin to discuss the matter, and callin any kid who questions your infallibility an "idiot," that it?

I have no idea what you're talking about. But let me give you a little tip I give to my second graders: Try making a point. Here's a handy little guide I've come up with: "My name is aint. And I think _______."

 

[sirkickyass]

Well, Kicky, if ya wanna go quotin wiki, ya coulda throwed this in, eh?

"At worst, it seems that the massive drop in cerebral blood pressure would cause a victim to lose consciousness in several seconds.[17]

17. Excerpt from British Medical Journal, Vol 294: February, 1987, quoting Proges Medical of 9 July 1886, on the subject of research into "living heads".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine

Sure, as I wrote before the wiki account I discussed was probably apocryphal.

I don't think your quote actually disproves Loki's point though, that we're really guessing and speculating. Even the language you've quoted above is couched in the language of "it seems that" etc. That's not necessarily exactly inconsistent with the 1905 account I cited to.

 

[Hopper]

Biley, no one gives a rat's *** what I think, or you think, or what anyone else "thinks" so far as blurting out your conclusions goes. The only thing that might be of some interest is your reasons for thinking what you do, and the validity or invalidity of those reasons.

 

[Hopper]

I don't think your quote actually disproves Loki's point though, that we're really guessing and speculating. Even the language you've quoted above is couched in the language of "it seems that" etc. That's not necessarily exactly inconsistent with the 1905 account I cited to.

Well, naw, it aint, but it's goin too damn far to say it is "inherently speculative" if ya ax me. Peoples (not my ***) who know anatomy and stuff like that good should autta have a good idea of how soon ya might lose consciousness, and things like that, doncha think?

 

[sirkickyass]

Well, naw, it don't, but it's goin to damn far too say it is "inherently speculative" if ya ax me. Peoples (not my ***) who know anatomy and stuff like that good should autta have a good idea of how soon ya might lose consciousness, and things like that, doncha think?

It is inherently speculative. It's not like they're conducting empirical tests where they cut people's heads off while measuring their blood pressure and the electrical signals in their brain and then correlating that to a pain survey.

In reality, no one (that's living) has any idea what it feels like to have a sharp blade go all the way through your neck. We can hazard guesses based upon things that we know and can measure (the effect of blood pressure drops, severing of other limbs, etc etc) but fundamentally an educated guess is still, inherently, a guess.

Since you like quotes to end your posts:

"Tiger got to hunt.
Bird got to fly.
Man got to
sit and wonder
"Why, Why, Why?"
Tiger got to sleep.
Bird got to land.
Man got to
tell himself
he understand."

 

[Hopper]

Well, if ya wanna call an informed expert opinion a "guess," Kicky, then go right on ahead witcho bad self.

 

[Hopper]

In reality, no one (that's living) has any idea what it feels like to have a sharp blade go all the way through your neck.

No one knows what it dont feel like, neither. I gotta homey who done cut three of his fingers clean off with a circular saw, and didn't even know it happened til he seen them layin in the dirt after a spell.

 

[sirkickyass]

Well, if ya wanna call an informed expert opinion a "guess," Kicky, then go right on ahead witcho bad self.

By the same token, there is no reason to pretend that you know something when you are in fact, or at least should be, uncertain.

“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.” (Mark Twain)

So what's it gonna be?

 

[Hopper]

I aint claimed to know nuthin. But I spect there are peoples with more schoolin than me who might know them kinda thangs.

 

[LiemD]

I'd rather get killed by a firing squad then injected by a needle...I am all for Capital Punishment! I've been watching too much "locked up" on National Geographic...Some of these prisoners are MONSTERS and they SHOULD get shot instead of spending our tax money

 

[BabyPeterzz]

I'd rather get killed by a firing squad then injected by a needle...I am all for Capital Punishment! I've been watching too much "locked up" on National Geographic...Some of these prisoners are MONSTERS and they SHOULD get shot instead of spending our tax money

You know seeking the death penalty and the actual execution costs more than incarcerating a prisoner for life right?

I would choose the most graphic execution for myself possible. Probably being drawn and quartered. But that would be if I agreed with state sponsored killing.