Troy Davis: An Examination on Capital Punishment

Troy Davis was executed on the 21st.  There was a lot of talk around his case and a lot of people defending him.  To counter that, there were those who said he got what he deserved.  I don't think he got what he deserved because I don't believe anyone truly "deserves" the death penalty.  If I was on a jury for the case of Stalin or Hitler, I would have serious trouble morally saying that these people should be executed by the state.  That's just me and a majority of people in the U.S. favor death penalty over life in prison for very serious crimes, though it is only a slight majority.  To me, the issue of capital punishment is too messy.  Not everyone who has ever been executed is guilty and many execution we have carried out have been botched and the botching makes these executions seem very inhumane.  There are three main areas to address when it comes to the death penalty, a pragmatic approach, a moral/ethical approach, and the approach of how humane/inhumane it is.

New Rant: People are Too Sentitive and we are Desensitizing society.

Ok, so I have had the desensitization of society on my mind for a while, but it pairs nicely of how sensitive people are.  Even if a person wasn't directly involved with something if it is referenced in a joke, they are still very liable to blow their lid and take it as a personal affront.  I think it goes to the sentiment that we are coddling everyone in society and people are extremely thin skinned.  I have been taking those joke/insults for years (half insult but half joke) because that's my friends' style of humor.  Its helped so that I am thick skinned but a lot of us are coddled and can't take a joke.  I think this is why people don't like Gilbert Gottfried anymore.  He always makes politically incorrect jokes and it ruins his career even though objectively as a person who enjoys comedy, they are often hilarious.