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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Adar posted:

Camus is wrong - there are plenty of killers who have done this. For that matter ISIS routinely puts exactly this on Youtube.

Capital punishment as it's practiced in Texas is terrible because of the procedural shortcuts and racism inherent in the system. On a philosophical level I've never bought the anti-retributive argument. Why is retribution a "wrong" motive from a justice perspective?

The question is more about what good retribution actually provides, if any.

Popular Thug Drink posted:

i'm in support of the death penalty if and only if the condemned are killed gruesomely in a public spectacle, like being disembowled and burned alive, broadcast across all major networks during dinner

Bring back the carving of the blood eagle and I'm on board.

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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


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Torka posted:

It's baffling to me that miserable pointless decades locked in a shithole American prison with no hope of release is seen as more merciful than death. I know which one I'd choose

Death penalty in the US also includes miserable pointless decades (or at least years) locked in a shithole American prison with no hope of release plus the knowledge that you're almost certainly gonna get killed sooner or later, so I don't see why it should be considered much more humane even in theory.

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