Exercise Set 21.3 In the following passage from" Timothy Mcveigh Must Not Die: An Eye for an Eye Leaves the Whole World Blind, " Mario Giardiel lo maintains that capital punishment is always wrong because it is always wrong to kill." Giardiello refuses to admit any legitimate exceptions to killing, including capital punishment in the case of Timothy Mcveigh, who was sentenced to death and executed on June 11, 2001 for bombing a Federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people. Is Mcveigh's argument a sound one? Provide a rational defense of your response. Simply put: I am against killing of any kind because it is never right to kill. Let God be the judge of these poor souls and let us be more concerned with being better role models for our children. As a teacher I believe instituting the death penalty teaches our children that sometimes it is okay to kill. I disagree. I think it is always wrong and we should send out a consistent message to our children: it is always wrong to kill. Killing people can never be good for our children. Not even for the "unapologetic and unflinching in the face of death" Timothy J. Mcveigh. For the sake of the nineteen children killed in the blast let's teach all others that it is never okay to kill not even for the government Beating a child for hitting is giving our children mixed messages. So is showing them that some people in some situations deserve to be murdered. Let's be consistent in teaching our children. Appeal to Ignorance The lack of evidence cannot itself ordinarily be counted as evidence. The fallacy of Appeal to Ignorance is committed when one attempts to prove a conclusion true because there is insufficient evidence to prove it false; or to prove it false because there is insufficient evidence to prove if true. This fallacy is often committed in the context of highly debated issues. For example, an atheist (disbeliever in God's existence) might argue that God does not exist because there is insufficient evidence to prove that God does exist. On the other hand, a theist (believer