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quote:Last Statement I'm not entirely sure if this guy was taking the piss or not.
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What's the requirement for ending up on death row anyway? A lot of these people seem to have been found guilty of one or two murders, which, while horrible, seems excessive to sentence them to death for. Quite a few of them also seem to have been crimes of passion which historically have a very low reoffending rate. I'm just asking because of the amount of Americans that told me "Wish you had the death penalty now, eh?" when Breivik happened here. Edit: A lot of them also seem to have had mental problems.
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Dec 31, 2014 15:22
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Dalael posted:Here is something from a book I once read, in which a person talks to a crowd who do not believe in killing for any reason, including defending themselves from murderers and rapists. Just putting this here as food for thoughts, leaving everyone to make their opinions. Is the guy speaking an executioner? It feels like that whole speech was made only to convince himself that he is not some sort of monster, and he does it by making the value of life into some sort of Zero-sum game, where not taking the life of a murderer somehow devalues the life of the victim. I also find the whole "if you compromise with murderers/etc you are granting them moral equivalence" argument to be rubbish. Why does the state have to become murderers themselves, shouldn't imprisoning them be enough? There's nobody arguing for that murderers and rapists should just go free. Not to mention what should happen if someone gets innocently executed in his world. Anyway, this whole discussion reminded me of this:  (Sorry for the watermark, was the only one I could find) "He, who willfully ends another life by means of violence, and thereby commits a murder, shall be killed by the bidding of the law."
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