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But that would be a miscarriage of justice. To leave the men responsible for, say, robbing and stabbing to death five people at a quiet bar is grotesque. (Yes
by wtbob 11y ago
But that would be a miscarriage of justice. To leave the men responsible for, say, robbing and stabbing to death five people at a quiet bar is grotesque.
(Yes, it's also a miscarriage of justice to wrongly execute the innocent—and to wrongly imprison the innocent, and to fail to execute those guilty of certain crimes)
- mtinkerhess 11y agoMany of us believe that killing is never justice, whether it's committed by the state or not.
- rdtsc 11y ago> To leave the men responsible for, say, robbing and stabbing to death five people at a quiet bar is grotesque. And how would killing again unstab those 5 and bring them back from the dead?
- wtbob 11y agoHow would caging the murderers like animals for the next fifty years unstab those 5 and bring them back from the dead? I don't see how yours is a relevant objection.
- Frondo 11y agoNot killing a killer would be miscarriage of revenge, not a miscarriage of justice.
- wcummings 11y agoPunitive justice is petty.