Women gets to drip acid into a mans eyes by court rule

[vlad321]

highwaystar101 said:

vlad321 said:

highwaystar101 said:

*flip flop* I agree the latter intent is not worse, but it doesn't need to be, because killing people we deem dangerous to society is still pretty bad.

So then it is not worse, just pretty bad. I will try to refute that some more. Why is it still pretty bad if the people dangerous to society, the ones who have already harmed it and not the ones with potential to do so, are simply removed entirely, and are not left to cause other forms of burden on said society?

Because it is hypocritical that our hypothetical justice system has deemed murder punishable by death. We must demonstrate that we can be civil with our justice system.

But see, now you are looking at just the consequences again and not the purpose of the action. Killing a killer in a premeditated case has a completely different intent, and therefore the action is entirely different and no hypocrisy exists.

Edit: A little off topic but, I wonder if we had different words for it (one would be murder if there was premeditation and the other one with the court order would be an entirely different word) if that would change the minds of some people. Knowing how fickle and dumb the populations are in general I wouldn't doubt it.