I would guess the salesclerks suffer punishment just for being on duty and trying to help her.

You take that back. Jack Chick was a satirical genius I tells ya. Unappreciated in his time.

Sorry Alana, but you don’t have any more of a right to a specific “experience” than anybody else does on social media.

Counterpoint: 140 characters or GTFO. If you can’t pare it down for the platform it doesn’t mean that you have necessary ideas which require excess space; it means you’re bad at Twitter (which is a dumb platform, itself). Paste a thesis and shortened link (to your blog or goatse, whatever the mood calls for) like a…

I think you should provide a bullet-point laden tweetstorm about this because so many people care.

I actually think it will take a while for all the Orange shit to get into motion, so I don’t expect the country to be irretrievably destroyed until end of 2018/beginning of 2019 or so.

Not really.

Well, victims rights groups oppose the death penalty for child rape because if you face the same penalty for rape as for rape and murder why would you leave a living victim to testify against you?

I’m not , but you need to be clear that

Well, for one thing, no matter how horrible they are, they are still human. How we treat our worst says a lot about who we are.

Because even with DNA evidence there are still false convictions. Innocent people are still put to death.

I have a lot of reasons, and they’re not all logical or articulate. The biggest one is errors in the system. It’s unconscionable that they’ve put innocent people to death. There’s some quote about better to let 100 guilty men walk free than put one innocent to death.

If one can be certain, then sure. But too often the police and prosecutors have picked someone completely innocent so they can ‘solve’ a horrific case and put the public concerns at rest, get re-elected, and maybe get their picture in the paper. They don’t always truly want to solve the crime or punish the guilty.

It’s well documented that the death penalty and its associated mandatory appeals cost more than life in prison without parole. Do you want to reduce the appeals?

Guillotines are actually very humane, but remember people have to witness it and it’s a very messy death. It doesn’t fit with the idea of a nice clean and clinical death.

Because killing is wrong.

Because I’m against killing anybody, and I’m specifically against allowing the state to kill people.

For me, it’s because no system of conviction is perfect and you can’t undo executing someone, but you can set a prisoner who was wrongly convicted free. Even if a case feels cast iron, you have to allow for the possibility that at some point it might be overturned. Also, it’s not as if life in prison is a bundle of…

I’m with you. I mean, jeepers even in the middle ages, you paid the executioner a little extra to make damn sure that when he aimed with that axe, it would not miss.

Ok, to the people in the greys calling Kanye’s hair cultural appropriation, shut the fuck up. I don’t know if you’re kidding or not but...shut the fuck up.