Political Views

Every time I've ever taken a Politics test (to determine which party I belong with) I always end up somewhere between democrat and liberal democrat. But as you will see, my political views cannot be stereotyped so easily- they are far too diverse for such and endeavor. My ideas regarding this are surprisingly radical, and may even appear to contradict. (although they do not)

First the death penalty- I believe that the death penalty should be enforced, but they should get rid of death row. It's far too inefficient, and from what I've heard about death row- even if they are released due a court decision turnover, chances are they already want to die. To keep so many people there is not only highly inefficient, but torture. When it comes to crimes, if the criminal runs he has a death-wish, and we should grant them it. Our tax dollars are being wasted on large police squads who, due to inefficient practices, only attend to a meager amount of the 20 million+ crimes committed in the US per year. Our inefficiency has led to having the largest crime rate by a landslide (second place is Germany, but they only have 4 million+ crimes per year). The reason why that we have large squadrons taking on individual criminals is to capture them without killing them, but this reason is faulty- because they wouldn't run unless they knew that they wouldn't be shot. The large numbers, not to mention the history behind capturing without killing, motivates them to escape. By using such practices, we are asking for them to run.

This type of thinking might seen inhumane to you- but consider that we're all going to die anyway, most of us in our old age. Dying of natural causes in your old age is one of the most boring, poetically lacking ways to die. I would venture to say I'd rather be killed. By killing criminals we are giving some meaning to their life- which otherwise might have just been a statistic. Well, it's still a statistic, but if we killed them at least it would be a more interesting and memorable one. We shouldn't try to play God- whichever decision we make, people are going to die, and people are going to live terrible lives. So that being the case, the best decision to make would be the most efficient right? If we spend less tax money on criminals, more money can go to saving lives in Africa, or better yet be used to research ways to solve the world's problems permanently. If God didn't want them to die, they wouldn't. God's an all powerful being, so obviously the only explanations are that he wanted them to die, or didn't care either way. I think it's the latter.

To be continued...