Re: Is the death penalty extropian?

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed Nov 25 1998 - 09:01:50 MST


From: "maxm" <maxm@maxmcorp.dk>

>The victim is death and does not care ;-)

This is the part I protest against, everyone keeps writing off the
victim, "Oh well, a potential immortal was murdered, nothing we can
do...." Then people go to great lengths to argue why we should save
the murderer.

>>I postulate that the death penalty is the only just solution for
>>the unlawful and malicious nonrecoverable termination of a fellow
>>human being.

>I don't see how you can call it a solution. What problem does it
>solve?

Bad choice of word, replace "solution" with "punishment."

Brian
Member,Extropy Institute
www.extropy.org



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