Jesus, Least Fit Moral Judge

[Esquilax]

Hi, I come from a country that has no death penalty, and I'm here to tell you that this is wrong. We lock people up who are bent on those things, and try to rehabilitate them. If they can't be, we keep them locked up. Murder might be your god's first option, but it's not the first option of a civilized society.

So prior to any crime being commited in "your forward thinking country," if someone is suspected of wanting to kill or rape someone they are "rehabilitated?" Because other wise how would you prevent the crime from happening a moment before it does?

Boy howdy, that's some pretty twisted logic. I won't make a Minority Report joke, because someone beat me to it, but I will mention that, well... you didn't really say anything about what we'd do before a crime happens, now did you? What you said was, well, there's a quote function, after all...

In that the only way to stop someone bent on raping or murdering another person is to kill them

Now, I know that you were replying to someone else there, but am I really that crazy for thinking you were talking about a post-crime, here? Because the alternative would be that you're talking about killing someone before they've committed their crime, which in the real world- and you were talking about the real world- is impossible. I'm not about to be shamed by a strawman for using the sensible interpretation of your words, Drich.

Unless you were posing this as a serious moral quandary, in which case... how is killing them before they've committed a crime any better?