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Originally Posted by FireFly
No no, it's the hypocrisy in saying that we shouldn't want vengence or revenge and then turning around and saying that you want him to 'rot in jail'. There are less barbaric ways of phrasing things... You could want the person to 'serve their time' or 'pay their debt to society' but rather you'd prefer if they 'rot in jail'...
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so it's a rhetoric or diction issue then... I see. I'm not sure what your endgame here is. Are you trying to show the anti-death penalty crowd up to be hypocrites because they occasionally use incorrect or inappropriate language? That is, if they are going to talk in certain ways, they might as well alter their aims?
The point isn't that victims and society should not 'want' vengeance or revenge. I don't know if those feelings can ever be repressed or stopped. THe point is that vengeance and revenge should not form the principles upon which social justice is achieved. I'm not against the death penalty to protect Bernardo. I could care less about him and his ilk. I'm against it to protect the potentially wrongfully accused, and to try to develop an ethical society. I didn't realize this was compromised by my word-choice in an informal discussion.