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=grandpa;503519]I But if we truly are morally upright people, we'll consider what kind of message shooting people sends. Is it only a positive message? Certainly not. That's my basic point.
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The message is we will not tolerate scum like this, living with us in our society.
Why would you care if they died?
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Torturing or killing this man isn't going to set society right.
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Shooting someone isn't torturing them, and the guy would probably be even grateful to be put out of his sick mind.
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If people abided by straight standards of revenge (like you're advocating), retaliatory violence would be endless, encompassing all. If you look at the micro-scale, you can find examples like this. On the macro-scale you can see examples such as Vietnam under French
colonial rule.
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I'm not advocating vigilantism, I'm advocating capital punishment for people like this
If the state doesn't carry it out, then the people might have to.
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And it may be practical to keep such people alive anyway, indeed to study why they behave a certain way.
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who cares why they do it, their sick evil and twisted thats why.
All your study has already found this out anyway, and its not going to stop it from happening.
This guy kept this up for twenty five years, because he kept up a normal appearance, did his work etc wasn't a nuisance.
There was another case of this a few months ago in the same country.