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Lots of countries have laws that are abhorrent to us. Death penalty for weed, death penalty for being gay, etc.
by beervirus 6y ago
Lots of countries have laws that are abhorrent to us. Death penalty for weed, death penalty for being gay, etc.
- DocTomoe 6y ago... death penalty for anything is pretty much a sign for a barbaric society.
- sokoloff 6y agoThere will always be a tiny sliver of the population who prove themselves unsuitable/unable/unsafe to live freely with society and that society has to deal with them somehow. Whether it’s better to lock them away to suffer an isolated existence for life or sentence them to die is a matter that can be debated I think, as both paths have elements that are more terrible than the other.
- eznzt 6y agoLocking them away might sound better, but remember the state has to pay for them until they die, which really sucks.
- matwood 6y agoWhat really sucks is killing someone that we find out later was not guilty. One of the many problems with the death penalty is that it's permanent.
- sokoloff 6y agoLocking someone away wrongly for a year or twenty years is also permanent in that they can’t get that life/time back, even if they’re still alive when found not guilty. It’s just permanent and slightly smaller, but still a horrific theft IMO.
- carschno 6y agoWeighing economic costs against a human's right to live looks like a very strong indicator for a barbaric society to me. Although I'm aware that this is done (implicitly) in probably all societies to some degree.
- kevinmchugh 6y agoIt's a good thing the extra rigor applied to death penalty usage in the US causes it to be more expensive than life imprisonment. Giving the state a fiscal incentive to execute would be heinous.
- msla 6y agoWhen you get down to it, every country has the death penalty for something. Don't believe the Netherlands does? Try shooting into a crowd of police officers over there.
- ccmcarey 6y agoWhat an idiot comment. I don't understand why people make such obviously and easily verifiably false claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Neth... There is no capital punishment.
- katmannthree 6y agoThey're saying that you'll be shot on the spot and left to bleed out, not that you'll be arrested tried and then executed.
- tt433 6y agoI couldn't tell either fwiw but that's an interesting point; sounds more like a suicide method than an act of state punishment though
- ccmcarey 6y agoUrgh I missed that, but I maintain that his comment is firmly "idiot comment" material as it's pretty obvious that the context is about capital punishment and not getting into a gunfight.
- msla 6y agoIs English your native language? > What an idiot comment. I'm pretty sure you're the one making comments without understanding, here.
- msla 6y agoUltimately, every country will kill you for something. Whether it's officially the "Death Penalty" is semantics.
- vinay427 6y agoThe article is about the relative opposition to this policy in Malaysia, compared to in many other countries where these things are banned and heavily penalized, and therefore the possibility that this man will become a "cause celebre" for changing the regulation around medical marijuana.