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mister_monster · 69w
You can't just call it murder and make it murder. "Murder" has a definition: it is the deliberate unjust killing of another human being. You can argue that the death penalty is unjust, but you can't j...
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I disagree. Murder certainly has a definition. Sentencing another person to die in a premeditated fashion (from the comfort of a courtroom) who poses no threat to you is unjust. It is unjust because the people making the decision are separated from the basic facts of what happened by many layers (lawyers' financial motivations, time, memory, corruption, religious biases, etc) that play out in a courtroom drama. Far too often (and there is a ton of data on this) people are wrongly convicted and either serve sentences or are murdered by the state for crimes they are not guilty of committing.
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nicnym #BIP-110 · 69w
I am not an expert but the difference between death penalty and abortion is that there must be a trial of the accused by a jury of their peers. How many babies would condemn an unborn child to death? The baby is obviously innocent and thus it could be called murder. However the woman and “doctor...
mister_monster · 69w
I agree with you, but here, we are talking about the legal process by which the person is given the death penalty. That can be unjust even if the death penalty itself is justified when used in a just manner. Let's take it to first principles. If a guy walks up to you and tells you "I am going to ki...