> Why is it so hard to empathize with the victims yet so easy for them to empathize with the murderers? It's not hard. It's in fact very easy to empathize with

> Why is it so hard to empathize with the victims yet so easy for them to empathize with the murderers? It's not hard. It's in fact very easy to empathize with victims and difficult to empathize with criminals. I just find it very much worthwhile to be empathetic towards all humans, even the ones that do terrible things because doing so allows us to understand humanity better and in turn may help prevent people from doing terrible things in the future. > "One is too many" is not enough to justify a complete abolition of the death penalty. Actually, it does in fact, do just that. Why do you think it doesn't? You're basically saying the value of a person who deserves to die's death (or many of their deaths) is more valuable than an innocent person's life. To me it's quite clear that's not the case.