Writer's Block: Capital offense

Ah, don't we all just love questions like this.

Coming from a country where there haven't been any executions during peace since 1825 (Capital punishment in Finland) there is the predisposal (sp?) that I am a liberal extremist.

I am, admittedly, in a sense that I see no sense, moral or legal, in death penalty. If you really want to punish someone take their freedom from them for the rest of their natural life, but there is no excuse to murder a murderer in name of justice.

It is not a surprise to anyone that innocent people are killed by their governments in the name of moral and justice because of corrupt and / or biased courts, even though the spirit of justice should be that an innocent man is never convicted, that even guilty person have be set free if there is reasonable doubt about one's guilt.
Still, every year several innocent people get into death rows because the reasonable doubt is forgotten.

Many reason death sentences with religion, how it is deathly sin to kill someone... but killing someone because they have committed a sin is brutal, and I am quite sure that G-d is not very fond of such practises either as in such cases humans raise themselves to have the undertanding and rights of G-d - and last time I checked that was blasphemy.
Basically human being has no right to judge anyone in such drastic manner - if we use religion and G-d as the basis.

And if we don't I do not see what kind of ethic code would give anyone right to kill someone else. If killing someone is a crime everyone taking someone's life should be judged to death and all the sudden there would be piles of dead bodies...

Sin or no, killing anyone for whatever reason is simply utterly wrong. Period.

Just thinking.

Hmm... I don't understand one thing: how person who claims one believes in G-d can claim that something is "against" G-d? In my (not so humble) opinion it's contradictory and means that one places oneself to G-d's place. Therefore one claims to be all-knowing, which means one degrades one's G-d to one's own level or even lower... isn't that worst kind of blasphemy?

I don't understand it, as those same individuals say that G-d is all-knowing and supreme power.

I admit that I'm stupid in that way that I don't understand contradictions. Or maybe my view of G-d is just twisted?

I can fight with my G-d, I can question my G-d, but I don't dare to say that I know something better. I'm human, I'm not perfect.
Though, my G-d isn't flawless either, but still I don't think that I could say that I know something better - but I'm high believer of reasons, even I don't always understand them myself - but that just means that it's not my time to understand. Reasonings get clearer trough time.

But well, I think that one reason to my "odd" opinions is that I happen to believe that main thing is to be good to others and I don't believe in devil/ Satan/ what-ever. Evil is human ignorance, stupidity, selfishness etc..
When human being is being born(? Structures of English....) one's completely pure and good (no, sex is not bad nor "sinful" as it seems to be G-d's idea of great fun and reproduction, and therefore results of it can't be bad) and we can decide how we'll use our abilities as we've free will.

Bit mixed burst, but forgive me. Now I've stomach flu and migraine. Migraine came as nice addition because my blood sugar levels got too low.