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> Capital punishment for murder. You take a life, yours is gone. On top of justice, you don’t stick the taxpayer with lifelong care of a murderer. One problem
by tablespoon 4y ago
> Capital punishment for murder. You take a life, yours is gone. On top of justice, you don’t stick the taxpayer with lifelong care of a murderer.
One problem with that idea is that even murder convictions are not even close to 100% accurate, so you'd end up killing lots of innocent people.
- a-user-you-like 4y agoUsing that logic you’d never go to war because you’re not sure you’d never have collateral damage.
- komali2 4y agoConsidering that war is one of the worst inventions of humanity, it's not really bad to apply this logic as yet another reason to not go to war.
- a-user-you-like 4y agoIt’s not an invention of mankind. See Chimps, other animals. It’s fine to take that approach, you’re just a complete pacifist at that point who won’t defend his women and children. I thinks it’s why pacifism is a fairly rare quality.