| Ka-pi96 said: Not all people in the west regard life the same either. And it's not as if westerners don't kill themselves for reasons that other people would consider ludicrous as well. And what about India then? Also has the death penalty, and well they have Gandhi as their history. Pretty hard to find someone less violent than him |
True but the difference is that life is precious in the west from an "official" point of view. No government would declare that life is not precious or precious in some cases only etc.
So from there the death penalty is a contradiction that makes no sense. And to make things worse it never stopped crimes from existing so the only excuse those countries have is not even valid to beging with.
As for India, even more than Japan life is regarded as a transient thing far less important that life in the west. They believe that people live, die and reincarnate almost endlessly. Killing someone in india is barey more serious than firing someone from a job in the west so that person needs to change their plans and find a different path.
While this explains why the death penalty in India is not as big a deal as it is in the west, I want to make clear that It is nonetheless as barbaric as anywhere else it is implemented. It is just as wrong and misguided as anywhere else even if to Indians, death is just moving from one state to another and does not really change the nature of the person that dies.
Last edited by CrazyGamer2017 - on 05 November 2017
