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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
What's wrong with vengeance? Isn't the greatest form of retribution to have your own life taken for taking another's. Is it not the victim's family's right to closure?
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Why demand retribution? One life has ended early, why should another? Violence breeds violence. Capital punishment is disproportinatly droped upon the undeserving poor. That is a whole other subject, but Gans has written well about it, and
a good synopsis is here.
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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
I found a really great article on Wikipedia about capital punishment and have brought some new ideas for the death penalty:
- People who have committed the most heinous crimes (typically murder) have no right to life.
- The death penalty shows the greatest respect for the ordinary man's, and especially the victim's, inviolable value.
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I don't understand how killing one person makes someone else worth more.
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