Re: Death penalty
pcg <[email protected]>
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> Of course, as that's precisely what it is. It serves no useful social > purpose, neither as a deterrent nor as an implementation of justice. > > ***I will never understand that attitude. It's not an "attitude," it's a fact. Just because you don't like a fact, that doesn't make it subjective. > Sure, let's make the standard that if > you kill, you get to be fed and housed forever. It's not the humanitarian feeding and housing that acts a deterrent, it's the incarceration, reduction of rights, and limitations of freedom. Acting like animals doesn't contribute to solution, it only perpetuates the problem. > *** the biggest block to it providing deterrence is really the fact that it is > not a realistic punishment with the decades of appeals and legal bs. I wonder how realistic it seemed to the 45 murdered by the state so far this year. > ***But I will say that if the only thing it actually deters is one bastard from > killing again, it is fine with me. That's a reprehensible and offensive position. If murdering a human is worth the prevention of a further murder, then anything less would be, as well, no? Should we torture convicted killers on television? Peel their skin from their bones with live commentary, emphasizing how unacceptable it is to kill people? > **fwiw DP opponents say the opposite, that life in prison is more economical. I hadn't read this, but as I said to Mike: Fair enough. It isn't sensible *or* economical. > **So justice is truly hollow? Justice is what it is. Assigning values to it is unhelpful and irrelevant. -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot