lenny was going to die no matter what, george just made it as good for him as he could.

no... thats was not good 4 him
that was basicly Euthanasia...
i'm totally against it man...

Your missing the context of the killing. Curly would kill Lenny if George didn't.

And it would be for revenge because Curly has got an ugly character.

and it would have been better if curley did it..
lenny got killed by his best friend...

personally if i was lenny i would rather die da horrible death by Curley than get killed by my best friend...
i'd feel betrayed!!
i'd feel stabbed in da back.... even if it was 4 da greater good..

Curly would have killed him slowly, made him suffer. With George Lenny didn't even see it coming.

He wasn't killed because he was mentally disabled anyway so it doesn't belong here.

To answer the MAIN question I am TOTALLY against it! That is just plain stupid! Besides, I have a cousin who is mentally challenged =(...and I would just die to see him being killed because of that! Its out of their control. By killing them its as if you are saying they don't have feelings so you might as well get rid of them, but thats not true...they think just as we do...they just have a "unique" way of expressing themselves (as I like to put it)...Besides, mentally challenged people are lucky they go right to Jannah thanks to Allah (sw)! ...but anyways, I love my cuz...I woudn't want to see him die because he is disabled =(

i think its wrong, it wasnt the patients choice to become mentally ill therefore he shouldnt be punished by death. mentally ill people should have a right to live just like anyone else. killing someone who's mentall ill is saying that we have a right to kill deaf or blind ppl.

i am a believer in an extreme version of Darwin's theories so i will not comment so as not to offend anyone.

daloo3a wrote:

i think its wrong, it wasnt the patients choice to become mentally ill therefore he shouldnt be punished by death. mentally ill people should have a right to live just like anyone else. killing someone who's mentall ill is saying that we have a right to kill deaf or blind ppl.

yep..... which was Hitler's way of thinking...

Marwa, killing someone teaches them nothing. 70 years in jail, however, is a true punishment.

Fang wrote:

Marwa, killing someone teaches them nothing. 70 years in jail, however, is a true punishment.

so ur saying if i kill someone i get to go to jail...
where ppl are paying more tax each yr to keep me alive and to provide me with better living conditions..
hmmmmmmm doesn't sound too bad.

I think you should give him/her a chance to recover first, if it fails and (s)he kills people, then probably sentence them to death afterwards...

what quality is a life spent locked in a cage? i would prefer to die instead of living in jail for the rest of my life.

but thats why i dont kill people

Steve, that's the point.
And, the death penalty is more expensive than life in jail.

more expencive?

not to the govenment, just just get 1 injection and a couple of months in jail to pay for.

not for religious criminals (apart from maybe Hindus and Buddhists) there is normally a life after death for them.

and not for athiests either, if you go to jail then your life is changed forever, spend long enough there and society has no use for you, you life is basically over. its life without taking a life.

fang if you want to kill someone so bad, here is a gun go. kill a man because he is with sin.

I don't want to kill anyone... I couldn't.

you didn't give him a gun.

*Gives Fang a gun*

Guys. I'm completely against killing in any way.

I like to kill...... Mwuahahahahahhahaha!

No seriously, I wouldn't be able to kill anyone. Not unless they killed a person that was very important to me in my life.