@DbzRgs@SkyeOrona@loc12313@Nostradonny@EndWokeness@CommunityNotes If only Jesus didn’t directly address that teaching in Matthew 5:38-48, I wouldn’t be able to say that an eye for an eye is unchristian. A prisoner is no longer a threat and killing them would not be an act of self-defense but instead an unjust murder.
@jhehateme @Eswerve@MindOfBron@espn Gretzky can’t be compared to either. The debate between MJ and LeBron is too close for Gretzky to be comparable to one of them.
@GoldfinchLove3@JohnnyCards1987@jbowles@EndWokeness Death penalty inmates on average are more expensive for the government because their trials and appeals are longer and more specialized than normal ones. They also need more security and different accommodations than regular inmates.
@DbzRgs@SkyeOrona@loc12313@Nostradonny@EndWokeness@CommunityNotes This is an appeal to emotion not an argument. A consistent ethic of life is needed to ensure the dignity of humans is preserved. Capital punishment, abortion, and euthanasia infringe on the dignity of the human person and are unjust.
@DbzRgs@SkyeOrona@loc12313@Nostradonny@EndWokeness@CommunityNotes Capital punishment is not justified because human dignity is not lost even after serious crime making the death penalty an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the human person. Killing a criminal prevents them from repenting and being saved.
@DbzRgs@SkyeOrona@loc12313@Nostradonny@EndWokeness@CommunityNotes I wasn’t saying that Christians shouldn’t defend themselves. I was saying that there should be no death penalty because this person is imprisoned and killing him wouldn’t be self defense but an execution not ordered by God.
@JohnnyCards1987@jbowles@EndWokeness Regardless of whether it is Thou shalt not kill or Thou shalt not murder, God has never given humans the right to put others to death.