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The death penalty can have two purposes: 1) First, fear is a motive to not commit those crimes. 2) Second, it's purpose can be to completely get rid of the evi
by personomas 11y ago
The death penalty can have two purposes:
1) First, fear is a motive to not commit those crimes.
2) Second, it's purpose can be to completely get rid of the evil that he or she was. If you kill the person, there's no more of his evil. Wealthy or powerful evil people can have devastating and evil effects on so many people, and so it might not be worth keeping them alive.
- webkike 11y agoIf killing people is evil, which it is, because you can never ever be convinced of a truly righteous killing (there is always doubt), then killing a person does not remove all evil. It may reduce evil, depending on whether the murder of the person is as evil as the actions the person committed, but it never completely removes evil.
- personomas 11y agoI believe in truly righteous killing. Killing hitler is righteous, is it not? Even though it might have been a suicide.
- webkike 11y agofair enough, but killing can never be performed ethically by a state actor. Unless it is in self defense or an act of war, in which case the morality varies with the situation.
- fhdhxnsh 11y agoThis. As GP mentioned, we pit them in jail as an attempt to remove them from society. If you or your family have enough money (and we're not even talking about the billionaire, or even tens-of-millionaires here, but far smaller sums of cash), prison is merely a speed bump.
- kombucha2 11y agoMy anecdotal experience is that 1 is simply not true.
- dogma1138 11y agoIn this case the death penalty is to ensure silence. Locking him up would mean keeping an enemy of the state alive, an enemy with powerful friends and a very large bag of dirty laundry. This isn't justice (this is Iran were talking about after all it's judicial system is a joke) this is spring cleaning, the sanctions have been lifted so he isn't needed anymore.