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Capital Punishment:

windovervocalcords said:
You can't learn a lesson if you're dead.
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And many of those that commit such acts never learn the lesson anyway, and what are we, teachers of morality to those that, willingly or not, participate in actions that destroy the foundations of society? Billions of people live daily without engaging in such horrific and indefensible acts, those that commit such acts should face the most severe consequence, in doing this, we are upholding the highest sanctity of life. In allowing these people to live, we are devaluing life, a seeming paradox, but so is are Hobbes assertions regarding the State of Nature...
 
Bodhisattva said:
I support the Death Penalty on ethical grounds... Consequentialism.
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I respect windovervocalcord's opinion & she is far from alone having it.
That said, I simply disagree with it, when it comes to the most egregious cases & believe some people simply deserve to be put to death as punishment for particularly heinous acts..
 
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