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In reply to the discussion: Another Death Penalty Poll - if you could be sure of guilt or innocence would you support the DP? [View all]Major Nikon
(36,877 posts)15. Your reason doesn't make much sense and the your remedy makes even less sense
Segregation from society need not include the termination of life. It can make sense in a society that lacks the means to permanently segregate someone from society, but we certainly don't live in one of those. As such you are still left with several ethical dilemmas that you can't resolve, or at least haven't even tried.
Your remedy simply insures that more innocent people will be put to death, as if one isn't already too many.
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Another Death Penalty Poll - if you could be sure of guilt or innocence would you support the DP? [View all]
el_bryanto
Feb 2014
OP
Your reason doesn't make much sense and the your remedy makes even less sense
Major Nikon
Feb 2014
#15
I was not referring to anything you said as being untrue, it was the mindset i was commenting
Bandit
Feb 2014
#29
The death penalty provides no disincentive to commit serious crime. It's useless...
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#4
What you ask us to exclude is such an intrinsic part of the death penalty issue.
stevenleser
Feb 2014
#7
I once spoke to the Republican then Attorney General of California on a call in show
Tom Rinaldo
Feb 2014
#16
I understand that there isn't in reality - this is more of a thought experiment
el_bryanto
Feb 2014
#36
Thought experiments though can let you place exactly where your opposition to the death
el_bryanto
Feb 2014
#39