RE: Moral justification for the execution of criminals of war?
August 7, 2022 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2022 at 2:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that might be the item in question. Whether well organized savagery still counts as savagery. The primary utilitarian reason to treat all people better than livestock is so that no one has legitimate cause to act like livestock , and so they cannot mount such a defense caught in such an act... I'd imagine.
I mean..it may even be true that we're factually no better, but it probably doesn't help society to acknowledge as much - doesn't further any societal goal to which some response a b or c could be said to have some utility. We've been known to execute the incompetent as well as the competent. The guilty and the innocent. Knowingly so, even - just a process. Actual innocence and actual guilt are not necessarily bars or preconditions to conviction and punishment.
I mean..it may even be true that we're factually no better, but it probably doesn't help society to acknowledge as much - doesn't further any societal goal to which some response a b or c could be said to have some utility. We've been known to execute the incompetent as well as the competent. The guilty and the innocent. Knowingly so, even - just a process. Actual innocence and actual guilt are not necessarily bars or preconditions to conviction and punishment.
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