Do You Support Capital Punishment?

[mzungu]

It stops the crimes the executed would have commited, but can't because they're dead.

This is not Minority report! Don't derail the thread!

 

[Tuddrussell]

You said it didn't do anything to stop crimes, that was untrue. If you don't want me correcting you, don't make mistakes in the first place.

 

[mzungu]

You said it didn't do anything to stop crimes, that was untrue. If you don't want me correcting you, don't make mistakes in the first place.

To whom are you referring to????? Use the Quote button when replying to a specific poster!

 

[quatona]

It stops the crimes the executed would have commited, but can't because they're dead.

A good argument for executing everyone.

 

[mzungu]

 

[Notedstrangeperson]

If anyone's interested I made a spin-off thread here - looking at whether christians or atheists are more likely to support capital punishment.

I was thinking about making it a poll but eventually decided against it.

 

[chris4243]

Please don't be obtuse. You can't cancel an execution after it has taken place.

No more than you can cancel imprisonment after it has taken place. You can cancel what hasn't happened yet, not what has already happened. A day spent in prison away from one's family, friends, and job, is a day you cannot give back.

 

[Eudaimonist]

No more than you can cancel imprisonment after it has taken place.

You can cancel imprisonment once it has taken place. You can release the prisoner.

You can't cancel an execution one it had taken place. You can't undo death.

A day spent in prison away from one's family, friends, and job, is a day you cannot give back.

I understand that, but you can free the prisoner.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[chris4243]

You can cancel imprisonment once it has taken place. You can release the prisoner.

Not if they've served their sentence. Nor can you cancel the portion of their sentence they already served.

You can't cancel an execution one it had taken place. You can't undo death.



I understand that, but you can free the prisoner.

And we've canceled executions. People have been taken off death row. They'll never get back the days of the life they spent in prison though, no matter what future punishments they were spared.

 

[Jade Margery]

Not if they've served their sentence. Nor can you cancel the portion of their sentence they already served.



And we've canceled executions. People have been taken off death row. They'll never get back the days of the life they spent in prison though, no matter what future punishments they were spared.

Eh, if a person is wrongfully imprisoned, they do at least often have access to a sizeable cash settlement. You can't give them back the years but you can at least give them -some- kind of compensation for it.

 

[mzungu]

Two Wrongs Do Not Make A Right!

 

[Eudaimonist]

Two Wrongs Do Not Make A Right!

Yes, but an execution is not necessarily morally equivalent to a murder.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Eudaimonist]

And we've canceled executions.

BEFORE they were executed. What about afterwards?

I'm not talking about erasing the past. There is a difference between imprisonment and execution regarding the rest of a person's life. THAT'S the issue.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Tuddrussell]

BEFORE they were executed. What about afterwards?

...And what about all the people who died in prison before they could be released?

 

[.Iona.]

Never have, never will.

 

[Eudaimonist]

...And what about all the people who died in prison before they could be released?

Has everyone gone completely mental?

Yes, there is a chance of dying in jail. Compare that to being executed. What are your odds of survival then?


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Tuddrussell]

Yes, there is a chance of dying in jail. Compare that to being executed. What are your odds of survival then?

Fairly good, seeing as I have never killed anyone and don't plan to anytime soon.

 

[mzungu]

Yes, but an execution is not necessarily morally equivalent to a murder.


eudaimonia,

Mark

Sorry but execution is murder albeit a legal one. Murder is murder my friend and so long as we allow for such heinous things as capital punishment to continue then we are no better than savages.

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[Tuddrussell]

Execution is KILLING, murder is necessarily illegal. If it is legal, it CANNOT be murder!

 

[mzungu]

Execution is KILLING, murder is necessarily illegal. If it is legal, it CANNOT be murder!

So every person executed including the legal executions by Hitler and Stalin Pol Pot, Idi Amin etc, were not murders People are executed in Iran simply for being Gay.

Executions are MURDER!

Any country that applies capital punishment is a savage and uncivilised country!