Re: [Bulk] Re: Death penalty

> **But you are not making that choice, they are when they chose to murder.

>Kind of like how a woman is choosing to have her man beat her when she
flirts with another man?<

That is a really flawed analogy.  The woman in your scenario is not even 
remotely analogous to a murderer, and flirting is on a different planet than 
murder.


>An extreme example, of course, but with a germ of similarity. Like I
said to Mike a little while back, our point isn't what a given
murderer deserves but what we as a society want to dish out.<

I'm sure society would rather not have a criminal justice system at all. 
And as soon as you can figure out a way to get rid of crime we'll be happy 
to get rid of it.   And what if society, say like one in Europe, decides it 
doesn't even want to "dish out" life sentences?
What society may or may not want, to the extent that is even an appropriate 
way to frame this, is irrelevant to what justice requires.

Mike F.

 


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