UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote:One hidden cost is the loss of a productive member of society. Most of these drunk drivers have jobs, and so you've just decreased the number of workers in an economy.
and if you read my point. the lost of one productive member opens up the opportunity for an unproductive member to find their worth. considering that even if the DDD (Dead Drunk Driver) was a president of a company, the vice president would step up. and due to the shifts that would occure, opportunities of advancement would be available, and that open slot would trickle down where an unproductive member of society (Unemployed) would become a productive member (Employed) so again, how is that a cost?
the savings of the DDD's lost of pay would be transfered to the training of the new person. so again, no lost in economics there.
UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote:The power given to the police officers will, almost of necessity, be abused.
this is a value or emotional baised argument. unless you can prove that the number of police officers who abuse their power outnumber the number of police officers who don't.
UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote: Police officers already abuse power,
value or emotional baised argument. please show that the number of officers guilty of power abuse makes up the majority of officers on active duty.
UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote: do you think the addition of the power to execute certain criminals without any trial isn't going to be abused?
with poper legislation, no. now you are trying to envoke an emotional response... a contradiction from one who claims to be removing all emotional responses.
UnhealthyTruthseeker wrote:Do you think that every case of drunk drivers being executed will really be legitimate? How hard is it to forge such evidence, especially if it's not even taken to trial? Police officers already aren't held accountable for much, do you really think that there will be no problems created by lessening this accountability? You really aren't putting a whole lot of thought into this are you?
all these are emotionally baised arguments. yet today, there are procedures to deal with those few officers who decide to abuse power. those procedures would be adequet with the legislature put in place to deal with the event of executing drunk drivers. some of which I already expressed which is in addition and not replacement.
for one desiring to be without emotion, you are making too many emotional arguments without facts to back up your claim.