(August 6, 2022 at 8:52 pm)Helios Wrote: There is nothing in the social contract that says "if you do bad stuff we have the right to indulge in a blood sacrifice and kill you for the sake of dead people and our collective need for vengeance"The social contract also applies to how we treat those who have broken it. The idea we get to become a group of savages shrieking for blood because they broke the contract or worst a group of blood merchants who get to tabulate a human life like they are livestock renders the whole notion of a social contract a farce.
Hmmm. . . quite colorful language.
You can execute people in an orderly way, without becoming "a group of savages shrieking for blood." How about a statistical analysis, whereby executions of persistent violent felons saves lives on average?
I have to say, though, that despite your emotional persuasive language, you really haven't explained why chronic violent felons, say people with more than a few victims, should be treated better than livestock. The last time I checked, a cow didn't murder a child, get paroled 20 years later, and then go out and do it again.
