Time and time again, I hear people advocating...well, murder, really. It's strange how we always leap to violence as a means to an end. A quote by Nietzsche nicely sums up my feelings on the death penalty:[i]"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."[/i]
When we kill killers, we become the killers ourselves. What we do is no better than what they do. Showing mercy to murderers is what separates us from them. If there's not that distinction, then we're not a system of ideals, we're just a regime.
Opinions?
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I support the death penalty, and would like to see it's use extended. Just because somebody's morals don't align with yours doesn't make them wrong or Morally unsound. That being said a lot of my moral standings would be considered barbaric or deranged :D