Dunno, but one of my most memorable experiences was late one night when the bride, the other bridesmaid, the matron of honor, and I were sitting up chatting in the hotel the night before the wedding.
Somehow child molesters and the Matron of Honor's opinion that the death penalty should apply as they're not rehabilitatable came up. Rather than engage in that conversation, I instead addressed the death penalty in general and chose what I thought was the most milquetoast objection to the death penalty I could come up with -- that it's final and the justice system is not infallible, and look at how Illinois just exonerated a bunch of their death row.
I'd thought that would maybe steer conversation to fallibility of the justice system, or intriguing weirdnesses ni eyewitness testimony* but I was not at all prepared for
You can't take away my right to execute someone just because someone innocent might die.
At that point I gaped for a sec, realized that on this topic Matron of Honor and I shared no common reality space, declared myself tired and went off to bed in the next room.
* my mind's eye filling in a bunch of visuals I know for a fact I've not seen has clinched my feelings about eye witnesses.
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Date: 2011-08-16 04:33 pm (UTC)Somehow child molesters and the Matron of Honor's opinion that the death penalty should apply as they're not rehabilitatable came up. Rather than engage in that conversation, I instead addressed the death penalty in general and chose what I thought was the most milquetoast objection to the death penalty I could come up with -- that it's final and the justice system is not infallible, and look at how Illinois just exonerated a bunch of their death row.
I'd thought that would maybe steer conversation to fallibility of the justice system, or intriguing weirdnesses ni eyewitness testimony* but I was not at all prepared for At that point I gaped for a sec, realized that on this topic Matron of Honor and I shared no common reality space, declared myself tired and went off to bed in the next room.
* my mind's eye filling in a bunch of visuals I know for a fact I've not seen has clinched my feelings about eye witnesses.