Re: Banana Boat's Pro-Life Claim
by
pigbodine
06/23/2008, 7:17 AM #
You keep bringing up treason in this argument. It's probably to bait us into showing our ignorance or just a way to disagree with whatever we say.
If you are talking about the more accepted treason, great I would love to see Bush and his cronies tried for treason for all the crimes they have committed to try and turn the Constitution into so much toilet paper.
Or, and I find this especially strange, you are actually in favor of honor crimes. Honor crimes are the death sentences carried out against individuals who have been found guilty of bringing shame upon their husbands, families, villagers. Yes, this is literally meant to cover the murder of the husband by the wife (and not the wife by the husband since she is not the sovoureign of the family). But the interpretation of the law (religious law) has also been read to mean any thing that brings shame. That includes being raped or being in the same room alone with a man not her husband.
Now, of course, you are more than likely going to deny this but your logic will have to become vague. First you will try and argue that your modernity means you do not believe in the sancitity of these honor crimes. But that would also mean that murder must also be defined by modern terms as well and not just the literal definition. But if you accept that, then the death penalty is, by societal mores, considered murder. Well, even by literal terms, the death penalty is also murder since it is causing the delibrate death through pre-meditation.
So while you will argue for modern law on one side you won't accept it on the other and while you accept biblical law, you tend to pick and choose which of those laws you wish to follow.
Of course, I would love to see bush tried for his crimes against the country. But I don't want him executed. There are far more humane ways to deal with him. And being raped, or having a male friend is not even close to treason. but we're talking interpretation.
And anything you say in answer will also be that. Interpretation. Which is subjective.
PS
Woof.