Suave

There are better ways of punishing a criminal. Killing someone does nothing to help society, aside from removing said person. Prison, in its current form, is also stupid. Criminals should be used as cheap labour to make our products. They could be hired out to companies at less than the wage they would normally hire foreigners in sweatshops, and we could have some guilt-free Nikes. Do it up concentration camp style.

And who cares if the criminals don't necessarily feel punished? Guilt and remorse are highly overrated by our society. Remorse is important for the average person, and the good person, but that does not mean that someone cannot be productive without it.

The only time one should take the life of another person is if that very person is himself threatening innocent life, and even then only if unavoidable.

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