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Warp wrote:
> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmail com> wrote:
>> Take for instance the 6th commandment: "Thou shalt not
>> murder/kill". That does not leave open anything you would say.
>
> Putting aside the morality of death penalty for a moment, in the
> states of the US where there is death penalty killing people is still
> against the law. Is this a contradiction? No. In the penal system of
> these states it's not a contradiction. It's perfectly valid to write
> a law saying that killing is illegal, yet still have death penalty.
>
> Let's approach it from yet another angle: Another commandment says
> that you must respect your parents. Yet if your father commits a horrible
> crime should you respect him or should you report it to the authorities?
> Even though the answer is the latter, that doesn't make the commandment
> any less relevant.
>
> You can have your opinion on whether death penalty is acceptable,
> but that doesn't mean that the penal system described in the old testament
> would not be understandable. Killing can be unlawful even if there exists
> death penalty.
>
Is there anything in my post that suggests that I disagree with that?
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