Death sentence. Yes or no?

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A_C_E said:

zero129 said:

Puppyroach said:

Absolutely not. I believe that no one, not the state or an individual, has the right to decide a persons right to live or die. It's barbaric and medieval and focuses on some kind of "revenge" aspect of the legal system, when a legal system shouldn't enact revenge on criminals, but rather justice.

But as you can see that "Individual" Did decide to take a life, so if he killed a number of children shouldnt that mean that he in return should forfoit his right to live since he made that choice by taking anothers life?.

Wouldn't that be hypocritical and corrupt of us to just go against our own moral beliefs and end a life due to someone else's actions? Sure they killed innocent people (which is the wrong thing to do) but we still know that we shouldn't kill other people. We are civilized (or clearing only some of us) enough to know that it is wrong to kill yet we break those moral grounds based on someone else's actions.

Your moral values are YOUR moral values. If your moral values are affected by someone else then you are letting their actions speak for your moral values, which, in this case, is to kill. Congratulations, you're no better than they are, you just think your supporting death for a just cause.

Works both ways. You can apply that to almost anything. Like say pests. You had to kill bugs or rats in your home. You did it, why? To stop the situation. A just cause, as you put it. You killed something. Are you going to argue it's not an important lifeform? Are you a horrible person now that you killed it? Your view is everything is one way or the other. There is no between. I see the argument not if the death penilty is wrong. I see it if it's justified to the case at hand. Not every case. I don't want the death penilty for some ass who robbed a store. Or if a kid was playing with a gun, and shot someone by mistake.