re: #521 Obdicut

Nice false dichotomy to start off with. There’s no reason to think that if we don’t execute people, the likelihood of being murdered is higher.

Nice. Don’t bother to make an argument. Just make an assertion, claim it ‘surely’ must be true, and be done with it.

After all, it’s not like people who murder people live any sort of life where being murdered themselves is a likely risk.

Sheesh. It’s like a ‘poor logic’ competition.

Well, you win, hands down.

There is plenty of evidence, even in the literature, that punishment deters crime. Good grief. You will actually argue that the death penalty is not a deterrent? Or even that it’s a dubious assertion that requires proof?

If you wanted to, you could argue that the lives of atrocious killers are still sacrosanct, and that they should be permitted to live out their natural span. That’s something that at any rate cannot be disproved. You could argue that they might eventually mend their ways, and we shouldn’t give up on them. But nooo. You have to go and argue that they don’t reckon their odds.