Teeqoz on 05 November 2017
I don't believe in free will at all, so punishment as a means of getting vengeance is meaningless to me. The only use of punishment is to prevent crimes from happening, both as a deterrent to would-be criminals and as a way to rehabilitate criminals after the fact.
Given that statistics show that the death penalty (and the general "vengeance"-view on punishment) is ineffective in reducing crime, how can people support it? Do they support more crime? Probably not, but it's not a very thought-through stance.
