RE: Moral justification for the execution of criminals of war?
August 18, 2022 at 10:55 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2022 at 11:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 18, 2022 at 6:44 pm)bennyboy Wrote:It costs quite a bit more than just a few grand to imprison a person for life, but, still less than executing them - I won't be entertaining any silly shit about making the process cheaper or quicker directly off your inane concern trolling attempt about black covid deaths.(August 18, 2022 at 5:24 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Whatever your moral view of executions may be, and whatever your metaethical view of morality may be...they're more expensive, not less, than just imprisoning someone. We'd save those millions you think might be useful in other places, were we to stop killing killers.In that case, I'd support a life sentence. You can build a small room for a couple thousand dollars, and heavy-link chains aren't all that expensive either.
Seriously, though, execution isn't expensive-- execution with extensive failsafes, expensive lawyers, etc. etc. is mightily expensive.
Quote:But like I said before, mistakes happen all the time that cause people their lives-- medical, financial, etc. We'll bomb a wedding of brown people on a whim, just because somebody knew somebody who heard that Bad Guy 237 was likely to attend. "Ooops, didn't mean to blow up all those women and children" is good enough for us, apparently, because I don't see outraged protests every time it happens. And yet some guy spends years of his life making schoolgirl tartar, and suddenly we're super-concerned that we get this one right.Indeed..mistakes happen all the time. Why, 190 people have had their convictions overturned before we managed to kill them, since 1973, for example. Seems like that would make for a pretty big wedding party. Concerned?
Meanwhile, since you're so stuck in this bullshit routine - has it occurred to you that you're probably on a board full of people who don't consider that..in any way, a good or acceptable act? That it was a pretty big news deal here in the us - yet another reason..said the longtime critics and protesters of the war - that we need to clean this mess up. Our government does bad shit, news at ten.
Is that supposed to be an argument to do some other bad thing..or..you know, a criticism of doing a bad thing.......?
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