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wateroverfire posted:What would a qualitative value of human life be and why would that be important? I'll take "Things a sociopath might say" for $1000. This is a really weird conversation. Of course we can have compassion for anyone. This is demonstrably true: Lots of people have compassion for people no matter how evil and/or wretched. It's also true that nobody gains anything, not even victims or their families, from seeing those who hurt them suffer physically. They do gain by seeing them publically held to account and socially held to account. That is something to consider: that if you are overly compassionate towards a criminal--not in terms of not torturing them, but in terms of saying "He's not really to blame for what he did"--then that does actually harm the victim and/or their friends.
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