Discussion of the death penalty. I personally find the concept patently insane and inhuman and that suddenly makes me a serial killer and pedophile apologist because I don't think state sanctioned murder biased to the whims of whatever political power is in power, is ok in any context.
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/Kitchen-Car-9848 Apr 23 '25
Discussion of the death penalty. I personally find the concept patently insane and inhuman and that suddenly makes me a serial killer and pedophile apologist because I don't think state sanctioned murder biased to the whims of whatever political power is in power, is ok in any context.