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Sheesh. What do we do? Are we so apathetic that we don’t care? I guess we all just feel that caring requires too much effort and lack of a personal return on
by jollofricepeas 2y ago
Sheesh.
What do we do? Are we so apathetic that we don’t care?
I guess we all just feel that caring requires too much effort and lack of a personal return on investment.
My activism will start and end here with this comment.
Maybe things will be better in the future.
More than likely not.
- storf45 2y agoWork to advocate for the elimination of the death penalty in your state and support groups like the Innocence Project are small but actionable steps.
- basementcat 2y agoSupport for the death penalty is a form of "virtue signaling" to indicate that someone cares for law and order and justice for victims. The reality is that a large subset of the voting population believes it is safer to kill a few innocent individuals rather than accidentally let a guilty person go free.
- erikaww 2y agoSounds like we should fix the right problem then! If my loved ones don’t get justice, then I am taking shit into my own hands.
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- archagon 2y agoState-sanctioned homicide does not seem like justice to me, especially when there are false positives. And taking things into your own hands will just land you in that same prison cell, which your loved ones probably would not appreciate.
- Jtsummers 2y ago> The reality is that a large subset of the voting population believes it is safer to kill a few innocent individuals rather than accidentally let a guilty person go free. This is a strange sentence to read, as if the one has anything to do with the other. Abolishing the death penalty won't cause guilty people to go free.
- fmobus 2y agoIf you execute an innocent person for a crime, in most cases it means you are letting the actual perpetrator go free.