Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 month agoI mean, it’s hard. I’m not really against death penalty on its own, I think there are crimes which deserve exactly that. My issue with death penalty is how easy it is to misuse. So in a theoretical world where some perfect entity with no ability to make mistakes decides who gets it, I’m 100% in favour. In the real world, not so much.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
As long as we have the option to separate and isolate, nobody deserves to be killed. The death penalty is nothing more than formalised murder, however one chooses to look at it.
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Sure, you can call it that and yeah, it might make some people think more before being in favour of it just because it doesn’t sound as bad.
But I disagree with the first part, plenty deserve to be killed, always had and always will.
In theory death penalty is exactly that - people justly decide that someone harms society too much and they don’t want that person in society.
(again, note that I don’t think it should be implemented in real world because of how easily corruptible people are)
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
No. Murder is murder. There is no rationalising one’s way around it. There is no acceptable context for killing someone other than immediate self-defence, which is not the case when discussing things in terms of justice systems.
Killing is never justice.
SaltSong@startrek.website 1 month ago
But you know he’s gonna kill a hundred people next week. Starve ten thousands people to death over the next six months. Start world war 3, and cause the death of millions of people. Those people people have no recourse to self defence, but you could defend them, right now.
futatorius@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It’s interesting that the kind of criminality, exploitation and abuse committed by the wealthy and powerful can seldom be countered by “immediate self-defense” and yet we are just as fucked as we would be when robbed at gunpoint. Worse, in some cases.