Wasserpistole · 10 answers · 3y

Are you for or against the the death penalty?

Mostly against except for Genocide, and only handed down in the International Criminal Court in The Hague. And for anyone found playing Christmas music in November!

Only for child murderers. I guess it doesn't make sense to kill anyone for killing someone else but it's a soft spot for me. You don't get to live any kind of life

Definitely against. It's gratuitous and cruel. It's based on pure hatred/schadenfreude. Everybody deserves whatever's best for them and everyone else involved.

I think last time this came up someone pointed out to me that it costs more to kill someone legally than it does to lock them up for life. And I suppose its better to let terrible people suffer that to no longer exist... still not a fan of paying for their wellbeing though (talking about the worst of the worst here).

Against, I think people willing to go to extremes would be less weary of death than a lifetime sentence.

It's a complicated and truly is the harshest form of punishment meant to deter criminal acts. Lynching is an equivalent quick judgement ruled by society. Even though in some cases the persecuted's innocence is valid, mob mentality results in their ultimate demise. Violence begets violence and one person's death won't truly resolve the deepest issue. What's crazy is the savagery that exists on this planet > https://www.livescience.com/60431-do-animals-murder-each-other.html

Against, and it's not about what the criminal deserves, it's about what killing those people does to us - look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you and all that

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