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Do you think these bodies were really "bad guys"?
by CGMthrowaway 1y ago
Do you think these bodies were really "bad guys"?
- g-b-r 1y agoIs everyone executed in China a bad guy?
- alwa 1y agoI do not. I’m skeptical of the idea that there’s such a thing as a “bad guy” in the first place. Although I’ve met some pretty mean SOBs. It does seem like one framing that comes up a lot when people try to explain why they support capital punishment. But I’m more or less with lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson, who likes to phrase it “each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” (Come to think of it I believe noted nightclub philosophers Sofi Tukker went on to borrow that formulation too...)