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French EU presidency to push for worldwide end to death penalty, says Macron
- prirun 5y agoGreat, let's send all death-row prisoners to France. This reminds me of all the far-right, Christian, pro-lifers: if they want to eliminate abortions, they should raise all the unwanted kids.
- dane-pgp 5y agoI'm not sure that's as good an argument as you think it is. For example, if a government somewhere decided that disabled children were a drain on society and should be killed at birth, it would be valid for a pro-lifer to oppose this killing while also not volunteering to personally raise all the disabled children in the society (or even one such child).
- dane-pgp 5y ago> several large nations including China, Iran and the United States maintain it. While reducing government violence is a valid goal in itself, I can't help thinking that Macron is at least partially motivated by the opportunity to draw a distinction between "civilised" nations (like his own) and "barbaric" ones, which he's insinuating includes the US.