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Because studies have shown its cheaper than executing them (unless you don't care about due process$

I also find it odd that the people who complain most about the incompetence of government are often the first ones to trust it enough to decide whether a person has committed a crime beyond all doubt and decide on the basis of that whether a human being should live or die. So let them do that...

Not really. I believe deliberately and thoughtfully taking another human's life is wrong, with some limited exceptions for people, but none for the state. How is that "immature"?

Yeah but you are an extremist nutter so..... (PS so I guess terrorists who kill easterners on eastern ground are okay to live? Oh wait, those are westerners not terrorists)

The death penalty is wrong under all circumstances.

Wrong

I'll preface this by saying I'm now more in this argument standing up for the side of appropriate use of survey/statistical data rather than arguing that Australia is racist. I don't think that a survey that asks one question of one group of people is proof of much at all. At absolute best it...

Not really. It could indicate higher levels of social desirability bias, or people believing they aren't racist when they are. Further more most visitors to Australia come frm western/white countries. So measuring feelings towards tourists might not be the bet measure of racism anyway. A UWS...

Yeah and you generally only complain about a person being a Muslim or a person being a woman, but we all know you hate both.

The WEF gathered the data from late 2011 through late 2012 by asking respondents, “How welcome are foreign visitors in your country?” Very scientific, at best it shows that Australians don't think they are racist.

Yes

Doesn't matter. It is more worrying that this was an irrational act, suggesting that fear of Arabs is becoming hard wired and not an opinion.

Where does it say that I don't?

*shakes head* So innocent people are now being physically assaulted based on their race and doing something (running), that EVERYBODY else was doing.

Terrible news, get ready for PATRIOT act style legislation in the coming months (ugh)

I don't want to get into an argument, but I'm genuinely curious as to what you find wrong with this statement. I don't think it's debatable that the population is aging, and from that it necessarily follows that health costs will increase (unless we show huge increases in medical science, which...

Oh I think anybody who thinks that the tertiary sector will be better off under the liberals is dreaming. I have no doubt the liberals will/would have cut harder and deeper. But for labor to do it just seems stupid. Just means the liberals can do it harder later on down the track and labor...

Depends on what you mean by most. There's a large Christian population in Lebanon as well http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Lebanon

Only $900 m is actually coming out of uni budgets and I think this is stupid. The rest of the changes are kinda meh. I do wonder though why labor is cutting money in areas where it's their base. Why not raise the money by taxing business, cutting defense spending, cutting tax breaks for rich...

I sense that you are more outraged that a Muslim might not be in prison than you feel any sympathy toward the woman herself. But in any event, I think sometimes appeals are heard to that the legal questions that emerge can be explored.