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.
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And we are supposed to give the prisoners cable TV and rec time? I thought prison was a punishment. The death penalty is best economically, and morally. Only problems with it would be if someone was framed, but even then that can be avoidable.