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Sure, some actions are more harmful than others. Killing a person is worse than imprisoning them indefinitely. But the degree to which it is worse (and whether
by jsjohns2 10y ago
Sure, some actions are more harmful than others. Killing a person is worse than imprisoning them indefinitely.
But the degree to which it is worse (and whether it is enough to ban the death penalty) seems quite subjective.
Seems to me that you could use an identical line of reasoning to conclude that prison sentences longer than N years should be banned.
Is it a matter of degree? Or is there something fundamentally different about the death penalty that warrants a ban?
- jacquesm 10y agoDeath is final, everything else is on a gradient, death is an absolute. So yes, it's fundamentally different. That's why we hold parties on New Years Eve to mark the passing of time but we also hold funeral wakes when someone dies.