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What is the point of the death penalty if not vengeance? And if it's vengeance, how can vengeance ever be humane?
by pmoriarty 6y ago
What is the point of the death penalty if not vengeance?
And if it's vengeance, how can vengeance ever be humane?
- eindiran 6y agoTo be clear, I am absolutely not defending capital punishment as a practice. My point is just that, if you have already decided that you are going to do it, like SC has, it is much better for it to be by firing squad than for it to be by electrocution, which was the proposed alternative.
- kyriakos 6y agoI'm against death penalty but for the sake of discussion I don't think it's purpose is vengeance or torture but because society deems that some crimes are irredeemable and are a way of avoiding having to keep the criminal detained indefinitely.
- loopz 6y agoComparing costs: https://www.thebalance.com/comparing-the-costs-of-death-penalty-vs-life-in-prison-4689874 https://www.thebalance.com/comparing-the-costs-of-death-pena...
- kyriakos 6y agoI honestly didn't know this. I live in a country where death penalty sounds like a medieval thing. On the other hand I really don't understand how you take vengeance by killing someone. I understand it can be a deterrent for serious crime though.
- loopz 6y agoVengeance is mostly learned behaviour and ideology.