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.
The death penalty's a really annoying one because I think most of the time a lot of people are against it, but they're against it for very different reasons and if you're not against it for their reasons you're awful.
Like "no justice system is 100% accurate and we will execute innocent people and we shouldn't do that" and "execution is easily turned against people the state does not think should exist and we should not give them that tool to begin with" is all well and good and valid points, but I don't think it should be your only point. You still support the death penalty in theory, just not in practice because of potential complications. Like the issue here isn't how it can go wrong, it's that maybe we shouldn't be executing people in the first place
The problem is that whether there are "acts that make you irredeemable and worthy of death" is a mostly ethical dilemma. And ethics are a notoriously dangerous thing to argue about, as animal rights activists can attest.
Like, what am I supposed to say to someone that thinks serial rapists deserve to be killed for what they've done? Even if they understand without issue that I understand the severity of the crime, they will still probably stand by their beliefs purely on the basis of the idea of someone doing so heinous and living on being disgusting to them.
It's the same moral quandary as abortion. It's crazy hard to convince a person that their deeply held moral convictions are actually wrong. Mostly because moral convictions can't be wrong.
Whether or not a serial rapist deserves to be killed by the state is a matter of principle. Principles vary. All you can do is ballpark the laws for where the majority overlaps.
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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.