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Quote by: DEEJ85  So by doing the same thing to him, makes everything better? Its just vengeance and emotion. |
Not everything one does to another is revenge, for one thing. And it is SOCIETY which executes certain criminals, not individuals.
People have decided that some crimes are SO bad that the perpetrators are not to be allowed to get off with anything less than the same as what they gave their victims. And lethal injection is a LOT more humane than what some of these degenerate killers did to their victims. We are not talking littering or unpaid income taxes.
Premeditated, first degree murder is what people are executed for.
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should emotion be our sole reason for killing someone?
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Who said it's emotion? I could see that feeling if the victims friends and family all served on the murderer's jury, but that's not the case. The system takes great pains to make sure the jury has no emotional connection to the case and the judge is professionally bound to be as impartial as possible. So where is this emotion?
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perhaps we should be more discriminate in choosing who lives and dies. maybe we should use something more concrete such as reason or logic to determine someone else's fate.
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We are, and we do. We discriminate according to the severity of the crime, the setting and the circumstances. There are a LOT of murderers sitting in prison. Society does not kill them all.
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its the same idea of hitting someone else because they hit you.
maybe we should make all punishments fit the crime.
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Hitting someone back who, without provocation hits you first DOESN'T fit the crime? Please explain the logic behind that.