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Quote by: smallpox It's an educated opinion. Capital punishment is useless at deterring crime in general. The only absolute deterrent the death penalty offers is a specific deterrent (we can be assured that the dead corpse will not again commit a crime again). But considering that the crime was committed because the offender held a post of authority, then we can assure that it would not occur once the offender has been stripped of his power to commit the offence. So basically, once he lost his job, he could no longer be bribed to be negligent again.

That's a slap on the wrist for any crime that results in loss of life.

There are no statistical conclusions that would suggest the death penalty a means of deterring crime. Prove me wrong if you can, but I can't really cite something that doesn't exist. I can say things like: Canada and Japan don't have capital punishment and they have lower crime rates than the USA, if that means anything to you.

This is why the death penalty is debated so often, but that wasn't my point, was it?
Don't switch this to a death penalty argument. YOU started the thread, and it wasn't about the DP, it was about China executing this man as a way to look good in the eyes of the US. Strawman indeed.

Of course they won't say it, cause then we'll turn around and say "look at those barbarians." For all we know, the one responsible for our tainted food was coincidently executed for another crime so we should fear not of tainted food from China.

"For all we know" is a weak argument when discussing specifics. Did they or did they not kill this man to gain favor with the US?

Well, it's a fundamental principal that if we distrusted Chinese made goods, we would stop purchasing them.

We might, if the Chinese government was responsible. These tainted food examples are hardly representative of China's total output to the US. If the Chinese government says they are cracking down on these practices we will take them at their word unless it continues. THEN you'll probably see some boycotts at least.

How perfect is it that he gets executed just after there have been a series of tainted food being exported from China.

I wouldn't know, and neither would you.

How is China even Communist anymore?

For starters, the CIA factbook says so, plus THIS site and this Wikipedia article.


Since we can't even agree on what type of government China has, I'll leave you to your opinions. There is nothing to debate here.