From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 19:00:20 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> On a more practical note, I could live with the anti-death-penaltists
> (should we call them "pro-lifers"?) paying for the indefinite incarceration
> of those I deem worthy of being killed. If I am not forced to feed a
> murderer, and he is effectively neutralized, I will be satisfied.
>
> Now, how much of your own money would you personally pay to feed murderers
> in prisons? Are you going to support your high-minded moral sentiments with
> cold, hard cash?
None. I am against the death penalty, since one can't ever know that
the guilty are guilty with absolute certainty. Suggesting that the
innocent should pay for the incarceration of criminals, however, is
silly; criminals are presumably there because they are guilty, and if
not, one can pay compensation when it becomes clear that they aren't.
If they're irrecoverably dead, you can't repay them. If they're on
ice or otherwise stored, someone has to pay for the storage. If they
are merely incarcerated, they can pay their own way (or choose to die,
of course).
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "[The] poetic justice of cause and effect compels respect, compassion." -- Faithless, God is a DJ.
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