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Albert Einstein: "I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of ju
by joeevans1000 11y ago
Albert Einstein:
"I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure."
- aMoniker 11y agoThe same man who convinced the president to fund the creation of nuclear weapons.
- aMoniker 11y agoDownvote the truth!
- scott_karana 11y agoFYI, aMoniker: you've been shadowbanned for more than three years...
- patrickmay 11y agoHow can you see that he commented?
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoTurn showdead on
- ycitera 11y agoThey should show the shadow banned posts by default... they are so light anyways that you can barely see them if you don't highlight them with the mouse
- aMoniker 11y agoCensorship is everywhere.
- jack9 11y agoAll events are irreparable. Justice cannot be absolute, in either direction. This is not a flaw in morality, but in our limited abilities. Acceptance of that is not weakness, but awareness. No amount of intelligence necessitates wisdom. Sorry Einstein.
- oconnore 11y agoYa, somehow we think that releasing a falsely imprisoned person after decades is fixing it. We made it right! Well, no, you took away a significant chunk of their life, and likely ruined the rest of it as well. That doesn't mean, however, that we should give up. We should be more careful about taking away life and freedom, and we should seek to make prison more fulfilling, so that people can have fuller lives when we deem them safe to be let out (because we discovered our error, or because they were rehabilitated).
- rcthompson 11y agoNo punishment can be completely undone, but there are few, if any, punishments as irreparable as the death penalty.
- betenoire 11y agoSomethings are less irreparable than others. In this case, death seems harder to undo.
- TallGuyShort 11y agoThe problem is complete irreparability. If someone is falsely imprisoned, you can't undo that, but you can free them, pay them some kind of reparations, publicly exonerate them, etc. If someone is found to be wrongfully convicted after death, what do you do? Essentially nothing.
- anon4 11y agoWell, taken to its logical conclusion, this argument supports abolishing jail, prison and all forms of punishment, since the crime is irreparable, therefore there's no point.
- pavel_lishin 11y ago