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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
well for clarity I think it should be an option to consider in extreme examples such as repeat offenders or extreme circumstances, similar to the process that exists in the US (that was previously lumped in with North Korea).
You are truely accountable for your vote though. You are really just sluffing off the reality that your vote would cause on somebody else. That's the thing, in a democracy there is responsibility behind a vote. You are right you'd never have to talk to that family, but someone else will, and then that family will have to deal with an innocent death. So you get to escape the reality that your vote leaves behind.
People who are against the death penalty find it easy to do so because they don't have to connect with the reality it causes.
And the proposition itself is outlandish, but the cause and effect relationship isn't. And it's that relationship that people with your viewpoint don't like to deal with.
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And I thought I was the one on a high horse...
So if, here in Canada, we implemented the death penalty and the system made a mistake, I assume you're gonna be in there explaining to the family of the victim why it was a necessary evil? You're not going to be hiding behind the structures of legal enforcement and governance with the reality-dodgers like me?