http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/10/08/republican-candidate-fuqua-endorses-death-penalty-for-rebellious-children
Having looked at the (above) news item, I was left in no small state of wonderment! According to this good old conservative christian American gentleman the best way to deal with wayward children is to execute them!! Or at least to paraphrase the wonderful insanity of the man he 'does not believe execution would have to be used often on a child who defied their parents' ( once is probably enough unless they mis-behave enough to return as zombies one might surmise!). This he says would act as a deterrent to other misbehaving children. Might one also suggest it would imply some kind of radical social breakdown were parents wantonly practising infanticide to deal with their wayward offspring?
Of course, he's not suggesting this isn't done properly. No, they would have to 'follow the proper procedure in order to have the death penalty executed against their children'. This by the way is an actual quote, not a comedic mockery of an over zealous religious fundamentalist caricature.
Proper procedure?!? How can there be a proper procedure for ordering the execution of a misbehaving member of ones own offspring. Now parents WOULD carry some incredible authority under such a law but then again so did the national socialist in Germany thanks to some of their laws and in neither case can be claimed a moral high ground.
All we ask for is rationality, reason and fairness in life and we'll all get along fine - even without recourse to executing our children!
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