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Capital punishment should be reserved exclusively for, and as the only, punishment for public corruption and abuse of power.

• estearum 1mo ago
  What's the argument for that? That seems rather arbitrary.
  • AngryData 1mo ago
    Because our civilization relies on governance and corrupt and degraded government can fail and collapse countries and even civilizations, leading to immeasurable levels of harm to all of humanity. It is a form of mass scale murder once you add up all the collective harm.
    • estearum 1mo ago
      But is that the only way to produce harm of that scale?
      • AngryData 1mo ago
        No, but the majority of people would be fine with killing other types of mass murderers.
        • estearum 1mo ago
          Oh, yeah, I was mostly curious why GP said this was the only allowable use of capital punishment.