capital punishment

Rob Schaap rws at comserver.canberra.edu.au
Mon Oct 11 23:17:52 PDT 1999


Hi again,

More of the bleeding obvious from a specialist there-in ... by executing a murderer, you double (on average) the amount of bereaved/traumatised innocents. Each execution produces as many such victims as each murder does. Only the newly produced class of victims not only gets its victimhood erased a priori, it cops an implicit condemnation-by-association to go with it.

For mine, this is one of the least stressed of issues related to CP, and I reckon it's very close to the very biggest.

Cheers, Rob.

Quoth Daniel and friends:


>>> 7) It inflicts punishment on survivors of the deceased who weren't
>>> convicted
>
>>Another example of victim erasure; what about survivors of victims?
>
>Is the implication that being a relative of a victim gives you the right to
>have someone killed on your behalf, but that being a relative of a murderer
>gives you no rights to prevent this? "Another example of victim erasure"
>is altogether too slick here.



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