Death Panels NO but Death Penalty OK
I like to think I am consistent in my beliefs. I am opposed to the death penalty because I do not believe it is wise to grant government the right to kill its citizens. I do not trust our government to be able to administer the death penalty fairly or justly. Indeed, we are currently releasing dozens of innocent men who have spent many years in prison for murders they did not commit.
Luckily most were given life sentences instead of execution. God only knows how many of those we executed were innocent as well.
But back to the question of consistency: why is it that most of those who oppose universal health care are conservative Republicans whose main objection is that we cannot trust our government to administer health care, yet find there is no problem with our government administering the death penalty?
I know some of you are going to object and say that the two are not the same; that death panels deal with innocent people while the death penalty deals with guilty people. Oh yeah? Isn't it possible that some people who will be receiving universal health care might in fact be killers, but not yet caught? Isn't it possible that some of the people convicted of murder might in fact be innocent? If so, then the death panel deals with murderers as well as innocents, just like the death penalty deals with murderers as well as innocents.
I just don't get it. Conservatives have no worry about trusting the government with someone's life and at the same time they worry about trusting the government with someone's health. Someone explain it to me.
