No, that wasn't my intention. I said it to challenge analog's view that any punishment laid down by law, due soley to the fact that the law lays it down, is valid. If you want another tragedy to go by, well, I can name a few. Stalin's purges, Saddam's anti-kurdish crusades, executing people for stealing sheep, hanging black slaves for trying to free themselves, the forced removal of Australian Aboriginal children, and so on, and so forth.
And btw, someone invokes
Godwin's law when they declare a thread over because someone mentiones the Nazis. Frankly, I think it's stupid to base an assumption of victory in a debate by naming an outdated convention.