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Ashraf Ghebranious <axg708@anu.edu.au> wrote:

>David Moss wrote:

>The biggest supporters of the Andrews bill are the so called christians.
>I wonder if they had been in the garden with christ on the night he knew
>he was to die if they would have tried to talk him out of it..

>'Please dont die for our sins. It would be such a waste'

>Of course, he wasn't terminally ill, but he sure as hell knew he was
>going to die. He opted to die. 

I read he pleaded to be spared right up to the end.

>Of course, in modern day Australia,
>thanks to the senate, that would be illegal.

As it was back then. Read it again. There was a legal framework in
place to regulate killing in the Roman empire. They had their own
"slippery slope" however and it was only too easy to sidestep the
regulations and put an unpopular, vulnerable person to death.
If you think human nature has changed in the last 2000 years, I
suggest you open your eyes once in a while.


David Moss,
personal opinion only.
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