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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I applaud holding rich people accountable, yet I'm militantly opposed to the death sentence.

I think there's quite some no wage labor left in them, let them try that out for a change.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The most difficult argument to argue against against the death penalty is that you cannot repair for the damages of executing a person you've wrongly convicted, if new evidence appears too late.

This doesn't even mean there aren't people who deserve to die, or who deserve suffering. Rather, it's an acknowledgement of the fallibility of human institutions.

[–] Sludgeyy 1 points 6 months ago

That's why death penalty shouldn't exist for crimes like a wife killing a husband. You might be 99.9% sure she poisoned him, but you cannot know for sure.

However, a school shooter caught red handed shooting a school?

Some crimes and scenarios can warrant the death penalty in my mind

Next argument is "what if the government framed people to execute them?"

Why in the world would the government point out that they are executing someone?

If the government (the rich controlled government) wants you dead they would do it quietly.

Even something as simple as cutting your brake lines. You really think local police are going to figure out that the government had soldier 65478 tamper with your brake lines?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Militantly you say? To what end?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm overstating, but yeah I want them alive. To eat a way out. There's plenty menial tasks they can do .

[–] Sludgeyy 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sending someone to a work camp is more humane than taking their life?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's reversible at least. I'm not for unusual punishment, just got the exact conditions of a Vietnamese laborer at the bottom rung.

[–] stoly 2 points 6 months ago

I’m with you here