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Originally Posted by evman150
It's actually quite a bit different than the abortion argument. I can understand both sides of the abortion argument. I can't understand the other side of the state murdering argument. You are against some murders but for some murders? How is that not an inconsistent position? But we're murdering murderers so it's okay? So who murders the government who has now become a murderer? After all, they're murderers as well and are now deserving of being murdered.
How is this not obvious that this doesn't work?!
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That is your opinion though, and while I can understand how you feel that way I can see why some do not view the death penalty as murder. Eye for an eye for example. You took away someone else's right to live so you do not deserve that right. You might not agree with that statement but that doesn't mean that someone who feels that way is wrong.
The law already distinguishes between murder. With first and second (is there a 3rd degree?) degree murders as well as man-slaughter. There are some crimes which do carry a heavier weight than others. I am not up on the US laws for capital punishment but I know one of them is the premeditate murder of a witness to a crime. Is that more of a murder than some guy who beats the guy to death who raped his daughter? I think so, but both are murder.