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(I'm not a proponent of capital punishment) It's actually a better argument FOR capital punishment. How much money is 20 years of life in prison worth? There'
by dusted 4y ago
(I'm not a proponent of capital punishment)
It's actually a better argument FOR capital punishment.
How much money is 20 years of life in prison worth? There's the lost income, lost opportunities for once, that's a rather large sum.
But what is the price for 20 years of not having a life, 20 years of waiting, being trapped and not free to enjoy living.. That must be worth much much more than merely the lost income..
What's a day of freedom worth in dollars?
It's too expensive to risk having to compensate people.
- episteme 4y agoThis implies that there is nothing lost when someone is executed unfairly, or at least that the compensation might be worth more than their life. Perhaps you could argue that people would rather die than be locked up for 20 years, but I'm not so sure.
- dusted 4y agoI'm not saying nothing is lost, but to a state, what is lost is only the potential tax income from that person along with whatever the socioeconomic consequences of their execution may have on relatives. On a human level, it's deeply tragic, I don't know what's worse.. The positive value of a year well spent, the negative value of a year spent unfree..