(March 11, 2013 at 10:58 pm)catfish Wrote: I can't see how the death penalty can be a punishment as the one that needs the punishment cannot experience the punishment.
Does the condemned not usually experience a number of years of experience of punishment in prison, knowing they are going to die? I can't think of anything worse than having a death sentence hanging over my head, waiting for my date to be confirmed.
As Shell said, once the sentence is carried out, it is a solution rather than a punishment. The interim years for me consitute punishment.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
