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mean, I agree with you partially ...
I sometimes wonder what people say in front of a judge (no jury in Germany) to defend themselves. A friend of mine is a lay judge - and no one ever said from the beginning: yes I did it, even when they were caught red handed.
I sometimes wonder what people say in front of a judge (no jury in Germany) to defend themselves. A friend of mine is a lay judge - and no one ever said from the beginning: yes I did it, even when they were caught red handed.
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and even possessives don't need an apostrophe, that is only used in possessives to distinguish a possessive from a plural in cases where it might be ambiguous without.
do you mind elaborating on what you do not agree with?
Note: the plural of "comma" is not posessive and would not necessitate an apostrophe.
Noticed that too, I'll fix it if you'd like.
His point was that setting people on fire does not generally result in a friendly and co-operative populace.
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Very, very few people have the balls, character, or proper upbringing to admit their guilt. This applies to every facet oflife. Just look at something like David Letterman recently. HE would have gone probably to the grave without telling his wife about his affairs, it took someone blackmailing him to bring it out.
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True enough, but it is most commonly accepted and actually will be picked up by most grammar correcting word processing software.
A friendly populace is not my concern. A populace that understands that very real consequences exist for their actions is my concern. For example, how many murderers would there be (for the sake of discussion, exclude the executioner) if they were hanged, shot, electrocuted, gassed, etc. for their crimes instead of being allowed to live for free with cable, decent food, free gym priveleges, and free housing for the remainder of their worthless life?
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Her point, actually ...
yup, exactly ... it really is a very complex situation, so that needs some diplomacy even though that sucks bad in more than one way ...
There are two types of crime. Crimes committed without thinking, an act of passion. Or planned crimes committed when they think they can get away with it. Neither of which would be dissuaded by harsher treatment.
and again, if all the murderers were dead there would be no murderers. You may have bested me in the ring of grammar good sir! but arithmetic is my specialty!
then we agree, this is the only action that iraqi's understand!
but we aren't talking about our solders carbombing or using human shields are we? no, we are talking about them rolling a few heads on some detainees!
see the diffrence?
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Wait...where the hell are you getting this nonsense from? How does punishing a criminal for their crimes equal murdering innocent children? Here's the answer so you don't hurt yourself: IT DOESN'T. Lay off the drugs, fool.
I really would like to see evidence of diplomacy solving even one conflict in the history of mankind. Now, I am not a history buff, so I may have missed it while sleeping through class. Remember, a treaty is usually the result of something else, not the start. The Japanese would not have surrendered if the US had not shown that they were willing and able to decimate the entire country. After all, they didn't surrender after having two horrendous bombs dropped on their country. Aside from that, this is dealing with an enemy that does not want to negotiate, agree, or settle. They have made it abundantly clear that they want blood. They have made it even more clear that they are willing to die for their beliefs and see it as honorable. I see no reason not to oblige them.
when I was in basic training, my drill instructor told me one thing that stuck with me. call it crazy if you want, I really don't care. he said never pass by a combatant, shoot him dead, even if he gives up. because he will prolly kill you tomorrow if you don't!
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True, that is language developing - though to me it probably will look strange for a long time ... seems to be easier to accept change in my first language ...
A person willing to take another persons life (or person's life) outside combat ... (but let's leave that aside).
And no, I do not believe in determent. Most people think they won't get caught anyway. A murder is planned, and people go to great lengths to develop and execute plans that are meant to keep all attention from them. So they think they will never ever be arrested let alone judged for what they are about to do. (They often do make mistakes, and are caught, but that is not what they intend, thus a death penalty will not keep them from doing what they plan.)
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