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Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

I think he should get a life sentence because two wrongs don't make a right. If we kill him for killing others were just as bad as him. If we kill him we should die ourselves. If we do this it's not doing anything but making us bad people. I say locking him up for life, alone, and away from the outside world would do us justice.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

so two wrongs don't make a right, so should we have gone into Afghanistan after 911?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

So what your saying is that if we kill him, we are just as bad as the guy who MURDERED children and adults. Why should he get the right to live he didn't give those who died at the Boston marathon bombing that option.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

It has less about what he has the right to do, and more about the fact that our justice system is not meant for vengeance.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

I oppose the death penalty. .
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Quality arguments as usual.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

There is nothing wrong opposing the death penalty. .
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

look at all the other arguments in this debate then compare them to the one you made. As you can see everyone else has made an arguments that can be debated where as your argument can't.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

I would say there is. First of all you are denying the families of the victims' right to getting justice for them. Also the fact that the majority of people against it would soon change their mind if it were there loved one who got murdered and want justice for them.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Also the fact that the majority of people against it would soon change their mind if it were there loved one who got murdered and want justice for them.First, that is an emotional appeal, not a logical one. Second, that is revenge, not justice. Third, that is why the families of victims are not the ones that decide punishments within most penal codes. A justice system is not meant to be a retribution system.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

It is logical as it shows that a lot of people who oppose the death penalty are hypocrites. Also laws should take peoples emotions into account.Part of the punishment should be about retribution.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

It is logical as it shows that a lot of people who oppose the death penalty are hypocrites.First off, it is not an established fact, it is a claim that you are making. Second, the legal system is not meant to appeal to emotional vengeance. Retribution serves no productive purpose.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

It is a claim that seems very likely. Be honest, if one of your loved ones died do you think you wouldn't wish death upon them? Retribution does serve a productive purpose as it is fair and it delivers gratification to the victim's loved ones.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Be honest, if one of your loved ones died do you think you wouldn't wish death upon them?Yes, and I would kill them myself. I would then plead guilty to murder because what I did would be wrong and I would deserve to go to prison for it.Retribution does serve a productive purpose as it is fair and it delivers gratification to the victim's loved ones.Fair is very subjective in this situation. I don't think any outcome would be "fair" to the family of the victims, so I hardly think that killing the accused would achieve a fair outcome. It would simply bring about revenge, which, even if it is gratifying to the loved ones, is not itself productive, nor is it, in my opinion, something the government should be doing.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Yes, and I would kill them myself.What if you couldn't and they were arrested before you could? You would want the government to put them to execution. You would feel anger that bleeding-heart left-wing people like yourself where either preventing that or trying to.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

What if you couldn't and they were arrested before you could? You would want the government to put them to execution.Of course I would want them to, but that does not mean that they should. There are plenty of things that people may want on a primal level that should not be orchestrated by the government.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Isn't the whole point of a democratic government that it does what the people want? Not that I believe in democracy, but you do.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

I do not believe in a pure Democratic form of government, either in form or in principle. Not sure what made you think otherwise, really.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

So what form of government do you believe in then? You said you were a democratic socialist.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

A Democratic Socialist is an ideological term. I do believe in a Democratic system, but not a democratic society, if you get what I mean. I believe in publicly electing individuals, but only within a Republican society, where the elected officials are the ones running the government. In that sense, I strongly oppose places like California, where public referendums are common place. I do believe in democratic principles in certain aspects of life that are non-governmental, however, which is one factor of Democratic Socialism.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Oh, OK then.Even still, why do you think the government should ignore what the people want on this particular issue? Ultimately is the world going to be any worse of a place if this guys is executed? I daresay it would make it a lot better.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

For this particular individual, I doubt the world would be a worse place. I doubt it would be better if he was executed, it would probably just be a neutral outcome. I do think the world is a worse place for employing the death penalty in general, however. As tempting as it is to point to this example as a means of supporting the death penalty, there are countless others one can point to in order to contest the legitimacy of it, not to mention the systemic issues of the application of the death penalty in many countries such as the United States. As tantalizing as it is to keep the death penalty around for situations such as this, simply keeping it a legal option allows it to be used in a wide variety of harmful ways. The positive effects simply do not outweigh the negatives.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

May I ask why?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Because people have the right to live. Because it is hypocritical for the government to condemn killing while killing. Because of the disproportionate rate of false convictions, and last but not least: because of inhumane methods of killing.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

1) People have a right to live - Totally agreed! People do have a right to live. Monsters and terrorists don't.2) Hypocritical government - But then providing a terrorist with all basic necessities - necessities that those who are not guilty of any crime (people who lost their jobs, those that live on streets, those that live in 3rd world countries) can't have, is just unjust. In this case, we'd rather have a hypocritical government than a government that is unfair and feeds and takes care of a terrorist. 3) Disproportionate rate of false convictions - I don't think we need to worry about that in this case. 4) Inhumane methods of killing - You know what else is inhumane? Building bombs using pressure cookers and killing kids before they even have a chance to properly live in this world, and taking the legs of a marathon runner.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

2) Hypocritical government - But then providing a terrorist with all basic necessities - necessities that those who are not guilty of any crime (people who lost their jobs, those that live on streets, those that live in 3rd world countries) can't have, is just unjust. In this case, we'd rather have a hypocritical government than a government that is unfair and feeds and takes care of a terrorist.This is a sad thought that we feed criminals, but not citizens. :(
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

He didn't let others live, and if you want to talk about inhuman methods well how about what he did? Are you saying that what he did to the people at the Boston marathon was okay?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Because people have the right to liveDo people like this even deserve rights? He didn't respect his victims' right to live so why should his be respected?Because it is hypocritical for the government to condemn killing while killing.Killing a murderer of innocent people is not the same things as killing the innocent people.Because of the disproportionate rate of false convictionsIs there any shadow of doubt that this guys is guilty?because of inhumane methods of killing.I'm pretty sure having people blown up is hardly a humane method, so why shouldn't he be treated inhumanely also?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

1. People have the right to live. 2. It is hypocritical for a government that condemns killing to turn around and kill someone. 3. You will not change my mind on the death penalty.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

the government isn't just killing him for the fun of it, its an appropriate action to the crime committed.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

It is wrong to kill. Life in prison should be used instead. .
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

People have the right to liveHe didn't respect that right, so why should he be entitled to it? Also can you even call such a monster a person?It is hypocritical for a government that condemns killing to turn around and kill someoneIt wouldn't be condemning killing in general, it would be condemning lawless killing of innocent people. As the government would be lawfully executing guilty people it would not meet the criteria of the condemnation, therefore not be hypocritical.You will not change my mind on the death penalty.Well it's a shame you're so obstinate.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Fact: It is hypocritical for the government to condemn killing whilew handing out the death penalty. Fact: You will not change my mind on people having the right to live.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Well if you're going to just repeat the same exact points without even trying to refute the criticisms of them that I made then there is no point in carrying on.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

I will repeat the facts until you either believe them or stop pushing your beliefs on me. Fact: It is hypocritical for the government to kill people while they condemn killing. You will not change my mind.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Once again Andy are you reading this shit?? She doesn't even know the difference between fact and opinion.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

or stop pushing your beliefs on me.False. You will continue repeating your "facts" long after someone tries to push theirs. Fact: theEccentric did not try pushing beliefs on you and you still repeated facts.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

It is hypocritical for a government that condemns killing to use the death penalty.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

so did he consider the victims rights to live.......... No he didn't so he deserves the same!
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

My eyes are bothering me today. I will try my best to consider what you are saying. Let me know if I get anything wrong. I of course consider victims of rape, murder, and torture. I was raped 3 times, so I agree that criminals shouyld be punished. Life in prison should be the norm, not killing. It is hypocritical for a government that condemns killing to use the death penalty.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

the government only condemns unlawful killing not lawful killing there a difference?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

It is wrong to kill people. People have the right to live. .
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

and like i said before to your point of everyone has the right to live, this low life did not consider the poor innocent peoples right to live, so why should anyone respect his right to live?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Like I said: People have the right to live. .
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

if you take a life then you should lose that right to live because your taking away someone else's right to live!
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. It is hypocritical to condemn killing while taking someone's life. Everyone has the right to live.+
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Just so we are all clear... Does everyone have the right to life in your opinion or not? You have left it a little ambiguous.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz!! you live on cloud cuckoo land,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Ad homenim fallacy. Debate the facts or leave. Yes or no: Do people have the right to live?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

I've debated you and all you have come back with is people have the right to live, and I have said people do have the right to live but when they take away someone else's right to live then they themselves should lose there's!
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Fact: The right to life is the most basic right we have. The Founding Fathers agreed with this in the Declaration of Independence.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Yeah they also said they have a right to liberty. Everyone should be set free then?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

is that all you have?? answer this did he respect the rights to live of all the victims of the bombing?? and especially the little 8 year old boy he placed the bomb behind??
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

liberty and happiness are also basic rights so should no one be imprisoned then?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

It is wrong to kill. Even criminals have the right to live. I am prolife, so I oppose war, torture, rape, and murder.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

It is wrong to imprison. Even criminals have the right to freedom and happiness.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

That doesn't answer the question I asked. Try again.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Debate the facts or leave.Ah is that why you left all the other debates?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

actually NEITHER! he was used, a patsy by the govt. its obvious when you study the all the evidence. his trial was a joke. everything the msm said is a lie and a contradiction. truly,americans are the dumbest people on the planet. so easliy hoodwinked.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

First, why are you making multiple accounts just to say this sort of thing? Second, what evidence do you have that supports your claims?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

What multiple accounts? Let's be skeptical here and go through a check list we can all agree government is corrupt so what makes you think they wouldn't do this? We know media is bias and we all know the united states has a past of false flag terror(I hope you do) Anyway, here watch this video first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpu6_kArb9U  Keep an open mind. Ok now here are 2 websites i personally like for this event, here https://truthandshadows.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/false-flag-theatre-boston-bombing-involves-clearly-staged-carnage/  and http://www.hangthebankers.com/proof-boston-marathon-bombing-was-a-false-flag-operation/  tell me what you think so i can get back to you.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Death penalty just doesn't make sense to me. Someone does a terrible crime so we kill them and they never have to repent or feel remorse? No, if someone does something unspeakable, like mass murder or the boston bombing, throw them in the cell and throw away the key, proverbially. Have them live with the choices they made for the rest of their lives.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

If that were the case, then life imprisonment is a good punishment for him. But unfortunately that's not how it works. He has to be fed regularly and with proper dietary requirements. He should be able to keep himself clean, so basic bathroom facilities. He should be allowed to freaking pray! If he has health troubles, then he should be tended to. Although he doesn't get a first class treatment, he gets the basic human care and he still has his fucking rights! People who find themselves jobless and on the streets (they committed no petty crimes, let alone terrorism) can't afford most of those facilities. So no, giving him LIFE, under the current system, just won't do justice.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Just because maximum security prisoners get to eat and take a dump doesn't mean they have any rights or live a comfortable life. They live a lot of their lives in solitude and the food they eat is miserably poor quality. People who find themselves jobless and on the streets (they committed no petty crimes, let alone terrorism) can't afford most of those facilities.Homelessness is a completely different debate. That being said, there are homeless shelters out there. I don't know the quality of them, but they exist. Not to mention the notion that some homeless people do commit petty crime (whether intention or not) and wind up getting the care they need in minimum security prisons.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

So have them in jail at the tax payers expense, living life regardless of where they are there still living and breathing unlike his victims, let alone the ones who survived who have had their lives changed for ever! what's the point in putting him in a cell and throwing away the key, that's a waste of a cell, kill him!! one less extremist the more we take a stronger stance towards these kind of people the better chance we have of putting some of them off planning anything like this again!!
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

So have them in jail at the tax payers expense, It costs more to put someone to death than to put them in prison for the rest of their life.one less extremist the more we take a stronger stance towards these kind of people the better chance we have of putting some of them off planning anything like this againThe death penalty has not been proven to serve as a deterrent.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

I doubt that very much that it cost more to kill them! one bullet and one willing shooter now that cant cost much??and its impossible to prove that the death penalty deters people because if they don't commit the crime because of that reason we wont ever know?? but I know from myself and speaking with other people, it would make me think twice before taking that extreme action knowing the potential outcome if caught! so there's more of a chance with this method than going to jail and having a nice cell, three square meals a day, outdoor time, TV time, it might not sound much but its a dam site more than any of his victims will ever have!
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

You're making jail sound like a resort! It's definitely nothing like that at all. Here's an example of jail food. Not to mention, prisons don't even care if you have dietary restrictions. A teen in Washington once died because he had a dairy allergy. He asked a guard if his oatmeal had any dairy products in it and wasn't given a clear answer and thus died shortly thereafter from anaphylaxis. sourceThree square meals, my ass.A nice cell, my ass.Outdoor time? You know who else gets "outdoor time"? Animals. Livestock. Not people.It's prison for a reason. Living there is not meant to be a good thing.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Since when is having to eat ghastly food a good enough punishment for murderer? He treated the people who were killed in the bombing worse than animals, so he should be treated worse.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

So we should behave as he did?
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

Killing a disgusting human being is not the same behaviour as killing innocent people.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Life Sentence

Actually it kind of is. Killing is killing. It doesn't matter if you kill a guilty life or an innocent life. So, yes, he killed a lot of people. Who gets to "pull the trigger"? What gives them the ability to take a life? If they take his life, then aren't they, in turn, a murderer?Having him rot in jail is far worse punishment than a painless execution.
Debate: Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get LIFE or DEATH?
Side: Death Penalty

So if killing someone is always the same thing then by that principal if a woman were to kill a man who was trying to rape her in self-defence would also be considered a horrific act.Definition of murderthe unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by anotherAs it would be a lawful execution it wouldn't make him a murderer. It would make him a deliverer of justice.Who said anything about painless? I would like him to get hanged which would be a very unpleasant experience, or perhaps even burnt to death.