On Duterte

[CavLancer]

Dealers commit murder with their product. The theory is you choose your deadites, our own beloved kids or the damn dealers. To me being christian doesn't mean you can't off the worst elements, it means by doing so you send them to God to judge. He's better at it. Merry Christmas

 

[sophie]

everybody is somebody's kid.

 

[Traitorfish]

To me being christian doesn't mean you can't off the worst elements, it means by doing so you send them to God to judge.

Seems to me, if that's what Jesus had been getting at, he may have said something about it. Worked into one of his parables, somewhere.

 

[CavLancer]

Yeah Owen, but my kids won't be drug dealers. Not the way we're raising them anyway. I have no compassion for drug dealers, really. Its like they are soldiers in the army of evil who have chosen their profession, and now its time to fight for what they've done for so long, at least in this one country. You join the army you lose your rights, same with committing a heiness crime. Where I get off is the reports if true of targeting street kids, that, if true, is just horrible. Have a tough time imagining it in this place. They love kids too much.

 

[CavLancer]

Seems to me, if that's what Jesus had been getting at, he may have said something about it. Worked into one of his parables, somewhere.

Nah if you're looking I'd start in the Old Testament. Try somewhere around 'An eye for an eye.'

 

[Traitorfish]

Nah if you're looking I'd start in the Old Testament. Try somewhere around 'An eye for an eye.'

"An eye for an eye" is supposed to be a restraint on violent, a command that you take exactly what as taken not a whisker more. Murdering somebody for selling heroin doesn't exactly meet that stringent requirement.

 

[CavLancer]

"An eye for an eye" is supposed to be a restraint on violent, a command that you take exactly what as taken not a whisker more. Murdering somebody for selling heroin doesn't exactly meet that stringent requirement.

Oh? Seems fitting to me. Heroin isn't vitamins you know.

 

[Traitorfish]

Oh? Seems fitting to me. Heroin isn't vitamins you know.

It's not a bullet, either. A thousand bags of heroin might kill somebody, but it doesn't follow that selling a thousands bags amounts to a murder. Real-world quantities don't covert like that.

 

[CavLancer]

I'm not a math whiz. A bullet seems more efficient certainly. Less cruel.

 

[Phrossack]

Dealers commit murder with their product. The theory is you choose your deadites, our own beloved kids or the damn dealers. To me being christian doesn't mean you can't off the worst elements, it means by doing so you send them to God to judge. He's better at it. Merry Christmas

And I think you're being extremely bloodthirsty and hypocritical, which seems to go hand in hand with the loudly Christian types. And you top it all off with the usual Christian arrogance.

You made up your mind to love violence first and then selectively read the Bible for supporting arguments later. If you ever wonder why so many people do not trust or like Christians, look in the mirror.

 

[CavLancer]

I'm not at all loud. I don't go yelling or pushing my views or beliefs. You brought it up. I bet half the folks here didn't even know my faith before you proclaimed it. Thanks by the way. Whatever works for you bud.

 

[Phrossack]

I'm not at all loud. I don't go yelling or pushing my views or beliefs. You brought it up. I bet half the folks here didn't even know my faith before you proclaimed it. Thanks by the way. Whatever works for you bud.

Funny, you seem more offended by that comment than you are by the legalization of murder on a whim. That shows your priorities, I suppose.

 

[CavLancer]

Glad someone finds something funny around here.

 

[Ajidica]

What's this about throwing people out of helicopters Duterte?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38456419

"If you are corrupt, I will fetch you using a helicopter to Manila and I will throw you out," said Mr Duterte, who is waging war on corruption and drugs.
...
He threatened the helicopter punishment for anyone who might steal the financial aid he was promising.

"I have done this before, why would I not do it again?" he said to applause.

 

[Berzerker]

Nah if you're looking I'd start in the Old Testament. Try somewhere around 'An eye for an eye.'

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person.

 

[CavLancer]

What's this about throwing people out of helicopters Duterte?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38456419

Yeah, that's pretty bad.

 

[CavLancer]

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person.

Thanks for the verse. I love bible studies. Think that resisting thing includes tossing em out a chopper?

For myself I don't mind if they throw me out of a chopper. I've had a few flying lessons, enough to stick the landing...

 

[Ajidica]

Yeah, that's pretty bad.

I would say sounding indistinguishable from an underwhelming Bond villain is more that "pretty bad" and far closer to "you mean a criminal trial against this guy HASN'T started yet?"

 

[CavLancer]

I prefer understatement. Everyone is clamoring for attention with such stuff, the volume is a tad much sometimes.

 

[Berzerker]

the Christian should not resist being thrown from a helicopter