RE: Capital Punishment
June 11, 2020 at 6:38 pm
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2020 at 6:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Why? Those guarantees don't reduce crime.
I totally get the idea of capital punishment as how we feel when we consider whatever it is that we think is truly evil and depraved, but given your comments above, you also seem to understand that this reaction isn't good policy.
I think that it might be more accurate to say that you aren't for capital punishment, but that in your heart of hearts you hope assholes get what's coming to them and more.
More than a few people have been executed for committing no crime, there was no possibility of recidivism, and I fail to see how killing a murderer stops them from killing in a way that locking them up doesn't.
This is being contextualized improperly. Nothing that a killer does is the issue. Killers gonna kill. The issue is not them, it's what we do. We're the executioners. Their acts are reprehensible, perhaps unforgivable, and maybe some of them can't be redeemed. They're fucked up people and nobody cares about them, any harm or punishment that could be imagined would fit -them-.
-is that also true of us?
If a man threw down his rifle, and was in the brig...on what rationale would you then shoot him?
I totally get the idea of capital punishment as how we feel when we consider whatever it is that we think is truly evil and depraved, but given your comments above, you also seem to understand that this reaction isn't good policy.
I think that it might be more accurate to say that you aren't for capital punishment, but that in your heart of hearts you hope assholes get what's coming to them and more.
(June 11, 2020 at 6:35 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(June 11, 2020 at 2:27 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It doesn't work, it's expensive, and rationalizations for it are hilariously inept.Zero recidivism rate. That works like a motherfucker.
More than a few people have been executed for committing no crime, there was no possibility of recidivism, and I fail to see how killing a murderer stops them from killing in a way that locking them up doesn't.
This is being contextualized improperly. Nothing that a killer does is the issue. Killers gonna kill. The issue is not them, it's what we do. We're the executioners. Their acts are reprehensible, perhaps unforgivable, and maybe some of them can't be redeemed. They're fucked up people and nobody cares about them, any harm or punishment that could be imagined would fit -them-.
-is that also true of us?
If a man threw down his rifle, and was in the brig...on what rationale would you then shoot him?
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