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Maybe it wasn't a "gotcha"?
Okay, then what on Earth was your point?
That using political slogans outside their intended context and reading them literally is a bad idea.
Also that partisans will only notice when you do that for one side's slogan and not the other.
I'm pretty sure the context that "all life is precious" applies here. That's what pro-lifers claim. But apparently someone who may be innocent still deserves to be executed according to the people pro-lifers knowingly vote for.
He did not dispute the guilty verdict. He is guilty. He admitted guilt. He has not claimed innocence. Quite the contrary, he explicitly claimed to have committed the murder.
He disputed the expert testimony of a witness at his sentencing hearing who claimed he would forever remain a danger.
Nobody is claiming he is innocent in the article that I read.
But you don't think that somebody can believe that life is precious but also that some people don't deserve to live?
Yes, people can believe all kinds of contradictory things. That doesn't make them any less hypocritical.
Do you think people should be free except when they have committed crimes?
Yes, but I don't label myself as "pro-freedom," so I'm not sure what relevance that has.
You really don't get that slogans are designed to be catchy rather than descriptive? Really? REALLY?
Like you never got annoyed about how people (mis)interpreted "defund the police"? Or "black lives matter"?
I'm not misinterpreting anything. If "all life is precious" that means there are no exceptions. And that's what they say.
Of course not. The unjustified confidence of a partisan... sigh
Which party am I a partisan to? Since you seem to know me better than I do...
The guy absolutely convinced he understands "pro life" proponents' intent based off a dictionary reading of their slogan better than they do is now offended that somebody else thinks they know him better than he knows himself based on what he says.
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Oh dear. You can't make it up.