RE: Moral justification for the execution of criminals of war?
August 18, 2022 at 6:37 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2022 at 6:45 pm by bennyboy.)
(August 18, 2022 at 5:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(August 13, 2022 at 11:57 pm)bennyboy Wrote: WHY do you think sheltering evil is good? WHY do you think murderers should be protected by the social contract which they have violated?
Because a society should hold itself to higher standards than its worst elements hold themselves?
That's nice. But on what basis is refusing to execute criminals a "higher standard?" What's wrong with killing people?
This question will get a lot of eye-rolls, I'm sure, but nobody yet has taken the time to establish that either (a) human life has intrinsic value regardless of who the person is; (b) killing people is necessarily wrong.
