• winterayars
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    10 months ago

    I don’t see any “have to” in here at all. To me, that just looks like a desire to have the state murder people. That’s not justice.

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        10 months ago

        Who’s moving goalposts now? A decision being “justified” doesn’t mean it’s “a chance we have to take.”

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            10 months ago

            That’s fucking rich. Your entire point is that killing guilty people is somehow justice. How is that not based in emotion?

            Here’s a coherent argument that isn’t based in emotion: the death penalty does not improve society in any way when applied to a guilty person, and when it does lead to the death of an innocent person, it both reduces the likelihood of the real perpetrator ever seeing justice, and prevents the innocent party from ever being released.