> “If you commit murder, we will run a national lottery and execute the loser” should scare you about as much as “If you commit a murder, you could be struck by

> “If you commit murder, we will run a national lottery and execute the loser” should scare you about as much as “If you commit a murder, you could be struck by lightning.” Interesting that it implicitly and without stating considers only the perspective of the murderer here. As a person who almost certainly won’t become a murderer the idea scares me quite a bit. Even more so when I consider all my friends and family and acquitances, all of them who i think are unlikely to become murderers, and all of whom could be executed under such a system by the lottery. So no. “If you commit murder, we will run a national lottery and execute the loser” should scare you much more than the alternative.