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Originally Posted by OhReally
Referendum question to the public
"Do you want to restore execution?" YES or NO
Politicians who believe they know better than us brick themselves at what woud happen...
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The problem is that people are never going to think about a question like that logically, and I believe they need to.
They may see the question "Do you want to restore execution?" but what they are likely to read is something along the lines of "Do you want to see Murderers hanged?". Most people, if you asked a question like that would say "Yes" without hesitation. Whether we are aware we do it or not, in my experience most people do. I'm usually logical to the point where I can appear quite cold, but even I think like that when I'm asked a question like that.
Unfortunately, where a decision involves life and death (as execution does), I feel that the best way to decide is to do so logically, and weigh up the pros and cons. It is hard to do that unless you can remove your own emotions from the situation.
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Personally, I have to take issue with the way this is reported. While I obviously think the boy perpetrating this crime is evil, and should be punished, calling him an immigrant is, at best, irrelevant (a person who commits this sort of crime is evil whatever race they are) and at worst, wrong. The article does not really give enough information to find other sources for what happened, but the article itself says that the boy came here to live with his father. It does not say anything about his father's status, but I'll lay odds that if the father was also an immigrant, the press would have at least mentioned that in the article, if not in the headline.
To give an example of the current quality of the reporting in the "newspaper" that calls itself the Daily Express:
This headline stated that Coronation Street had been axed. It hasn't. As the article underneath the headline notes, one episode was cancelled so that ITV could show the football. Something which they have been doing as long as I can remember. Now, I know that the second article is in the showbiz section, so as a reader, I should not be expecting hard hitting and accurate news, but the fact that their headline is contradicted by the article suggests problems with the reporting.