RE: Moral justification for the execution of criminals of war?
August 7, 2022 at 8:38 am
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2022 at 8:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
People in prisons, people at trials, they’re still a part of the social contract. Organized and civil punishment is also part of that deal. We used to have the option of exile- as in to exile someone, or self exile. Worlds smaller now, and as a consequence the social contract is as much of a prison as anything else. We don’t notice it when the example is war crimes- but we might if it were the homeless.
Point being, executions are (in some places were) part ot that contract, not outside of it, and there are no longer ways to opt out of it. I think the urge to rewrite some of it grows as the reach and totality of the contract grows. As the ability ( and therefore potential for malfeasance) of the state balloons.
Point being, executions are (in some places were) part ot that contract, not outside of it, and there are no longer ways to opt out of it. I think the urge to rewrite some of it grows as the reach and totality of the contract grows. As the ability ( and therefore potential for malfeasance) of the state balloons.
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