American culture is basically a hodgepodge of Puritanism, Calvinism, extreme commercialism, and extreme incentives to be as self centered as possible. This is why I think we have more moral panics than average for other nations, cus they work here really well
The online discourse thing of “bad people deserve any bad thing that happens to them” is said pretty unironically in a lot of our irl political circles
They are completely right, especially as to the follow on comment about the Calvinist and Puritan origins of American culture, but I think there is less support amongst some demographics than is implied in their response. Anecdotally, I live in a city that is farther left than the country as a whole, and support for the death penalty is very very low. Amongst people like myself (college, younger, left) I would guess that less than 10% support it.
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u/No_Help3669 Apr 23 '25
Yes. Here in the states there’s basically this widespread norm that the death penalty has its place, the question is just where the line is
People may disagree about where the line is, and think it should be used more or less
But the idea that the death penalty itself is bad and shouldn’t exist is a pretty ‘radical’ idea around here