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If we made it a new rule that if you commit pedophilia, you die, I don't think many people are gonna cry about that.
I would absolutely cry about it. Who are you trusting to enforce the death penalty? The same people who are 1) in government, and 2) accuse queer people of being groomers?
Even without arguing over whether the state would abuse/abuses the death penalty, there’s the fact that the punishment is irreversible, which in the event of a mistake means you execute an innocent person.
Yep. The only way to justify the death penalty in a system we know for a fact convicts people we later prove to be innocent is to be ok with executing some innocent people.
I’m very comfortable saying that even a single innocent person killed by the state is too high a cost to pay.
Depends on who gets to make the ruling.
Subscribed to a [whatever]Moe community on Lemmy? Straight to the firing squad.
I wouldn't cry about pedophiles specifically, but I am against the death penalty in general.