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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Same planet, different worlds.
In my world, you kill someones child, cut up that child, and try to eat them, you die. You don't get therapy, I don't care what your motivation was, I don't care if some PhD student wants to make you her rehabilitation case for her disertation, your life is over. No second chance.
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In THIS case it seems clear cut. But you can't make laws for ALL cases simply to satisfy the easy cases.
My moral dilemma is that I can see that is someone committed some brutal horrific crime that the world might well be a better place if they were dead, and that committing such a crime from your own free will might earn this ultimate sanction.
HOWEVER....
The human justice system is capable of error. It is capable of innocent mistakes, and amenable to corruption and evidence tampering.
Therefore I am left feeling that whatever my thoughts on a totally clear-cut case of an "evil" man who does a despicable thing, I have to remain against any sanction that is capable of being corrupted by human failing and collusion.
I realise that this will have certain people call me a silly liberal, but at least I can be comfortable that nobody will ever be able to put innocent blood on my hands.