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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
In your example is the victim, the capital punishment victim? Then yes, abosolutely I'm ok with pointing out that the life of a convicted murder is worth less than the other lives in society.
I come back to the fact that it truely is about priorty. Guilty people or victims. It's not nice, but it's just true.
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OK. My example, though, was the victim of capital punishment who was wrongly convicted of murder. As we've just seen in the last couple weeks, innocent people are wrongly convicted of murder. Not all the time, but enough. I believe that because the possibility of executing an innocent individual exists, capital punishment should be disallowed for that reason alone.
So, if and when the system botches up, and executes an innocent individual, I can assume you'll be visiting his family explaining that his death was a necessary byproduct of a just system of death as punishment? That's your duty as Joe Blow citizen who believes in the death penalty?
And since you began this pathway of hypotheticals, why do I have to explain to the family of those guards that their sons died because I don't believe in the death penalty? Maybe those prisoners should have been in solitary confinement. Maybe they should have been done up like Hannibal Lecter or Magneto. While killing those prisoners would have meant those guards weren't killed, it's not the singular, only way to achieve that.