• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      You can never in a million years be 100% certain.

      Not even if you see it with your own eyes.

      It is the argument why civilized countries removed the death penalty entirely.

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      Or how about we just don’t execute people? I find the practice a little pointless and barbaric.

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          And some don’t deserve to die. Can you give it to them? Then don’t be so quick to deal out death and judgement.

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          Yeah, no. That’s not how morality works. People have an inherent right to life regardless of how you feel. Ending that life is a violation of that right, as long as that life is of a human. So the options are either don’t kill people, or dehumanize people, and neither of those a good society makes.

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            No, I disagree. People like Hitler, which is who I was thinking about when I made my original comment, don’t deserve to live and you won’t change my mind on that.

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              As long as he was in power and able to cause havoc, then he’s that’s self defense. As soon as (if history had taken a different turn) he was imprisoned and no longer a threat to anyone, his life is as valued as anyone else’s. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have to face consequences, just ones that aren’t murder.