home to one of the world's richest cities, Dubai
This is a serious discussion, Soap! Stop making me LOL!
Anyway, Tool, your counter example doesn't work.
That's one city. Does EVERYONE in country live in that city? No.
The majority of America lives WAY above rest of the world's standard of living. Start with our military as well for starters:
Does that look like the rest of the world is rich? It doesn't to me.
Actually, the United States is NOT in the "deepest hole" as far as debt concerns go. The US is actually 14th in line.
I would like to bring up capital punishment as well as juvenile convictions as adults.
Should capital punishment still be allowed in the United States?
Bear in mind that the US is the ONLY nation in the world still practicing capital punishment. My take is somewhat conservative in viewpoints despite the fact that I am a hardcore liberal Democrat. I believe that capital punishment should be used on all inmates incarcerated for life sentences. More money is spent on one prisoner per year than it takes to send a student to Stanford. This would mean a large cut on the cost of housing inmates that are otherwise just taking up unneeded space.
Should juveniles that have committed heinous crimes be convicted as adults?
My viewpoint on this topic is a bit more liberal, however. I believe that juveniles do not yet have the cogitative development to comprehend their actions and therefore should not have to face adult-like consequences.
Any opinions?
Yes. I have Opinions on this.
Capital Punishment Should be allowed, everywhere. Honest to god, If you murder someone with malicious intent, you deserve to be killed yourself, providing that it wasn't an extraneous circumstance. There are always gonna be exceptions, and those need to be figured out, but damn.
I think juveniles are capable of reasoning as adults from the age of 15 on. They should be tried as such anytime after that age.
If you murder someone with malicious intent, you deserve to be killed yourself, providing that it wasn't an extraneous circumstance. There are always gonna be exceptions, and those need to be figured out, but damn.
There's a large gray area on that issue actually. This is concerning your second statement. There's a problem judging 16 through 17 year olds because even some of them aren't even mature enough to realize what they're doing is wrong. There has to be a way to filter them I think.