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The link you provided does not even remotely support your claim, which I can only assume is that the death penalty stops drug distribution. But unless you cont
by doctor_eval 2y ago
The link you provided does not even remotely support your claim, which I can only assume is that the death penalty stops drug distribution.
But unless you control for Singapore’s somewhat unique geography and politics, pointing to Singapore’s death penalty - itself the result of a wider political context - signifies very little.
- rayiner 2y agoThe death penalty is very important. What makes ordinary people follow the law is a desire to conform to society’s expectations. Humans are social animals—we want to be “good people,” not “bad people.” Imposing the death penalty for drug dealers cultivates a social norm about how evil drug dealers are. Its society’s ultimate sanction and indicator of the acts society deems evil. It’s like the social opprobrium we have in the US for child molesters, where we look the other way when they get killed in prison. It reinforces the norm—even other criminals realize that child molesters are especially evil.
- saagarjha 2y agoArguing for extrajudicial punishment in prison for criminals as being good, actually is pretty wild
- doctor_eval 2y ago> Imposing the death penalty for drug dealers cultivates a social norm about how evil drug dealers are This is just so unbelievably stupid that I have no words at all.