RE: The death penalty makes no sense.
August 16, 2018 at 10:24 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2018 at 10:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If I may?
You're asking for a reason not to kill someone. Tiz is asking for a reason to kill someone. If the only reason we can think of to kill a person is that we have no reason not to (let's ignore that we do)......we're not really standing on solid ground.
If we contend that by violating someones right to this or that they themselves forfeit that same right and we will act in kind..we end up with a spiral of vengeance, not a system of justice. The problems with that sort of thing are profligate..not just in our system but throughout all of human history. Misery compounding misery and multiplied by incompetence. BTK was a fucking asshole..but why should we turn our state into his equal on that count, on account of him?
You're asking for a reason not to kill someone. Tiz is asking for a reason to kill someone. If the only reason we can think of to kill a person is that we have no reason not to (let's ignore that we do)......we're not really standing on solid ground.
If we contend that by violating someones right to this or that they themselves forfeit that same right and we will act in kind..we end up with a spiral of vengeance, not a system of justice. The problems with that sort of thing are profligate..not just in our system but throughout all of human history. Misery compounding misery and multiplied by incompetence. BTK was a fucking asshole..but why should we turn our state into his equal on that count, on account of him?
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