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I think GP was repsonding to this: > I find the notion of supporting this level of harm to others to be no more moral if you vote for it than if you commit a v
by hn_go_brrrrr 2y ago
I think GP was repsonding to this:
> I find the notion of supporting this level of harm to others to be no more moral if you vote for it than if you commit a violent crime.
I likewise find it pretty ridiculous to equate voting for retributive punishment for murder and actual murder.
- ImPostingOnHN 2y agoI don't see anything there about punishment. It's simply a moral judgement of people who want others they don't like (for one reason or another), killed. Personally, I find it ridiculous to differentiate between murdering a person for e.g. money, and murdering a person for vengeance, and absent an imminent threat for which deadly force is generally authorized, I don't support the use of it.
- vidarh 2y agoVoting to put in place a system that arranged organised violence and oppression is to me equivalent to conspiracy to engage in what is effective violence against a huge number of people, and morally vastly worse than one, or a few, individual murders.
- klyrs 2y agoI happen to think that extended stays in solitary confinement are worse than simple murder. So yeah, if you're into retribution to the point of preferring or not caring if prisoners receive such treatment, then I think your morality is highly questionable.