This is just my opinion on the currently hot topic of the death penalty. In this post, I speak my mind without holding back due to the bounds of religion and morality.
The net is buzzing about the merits of returning the Death Penalty in the country after the news of a man who murdered his seven year old daughter and posted a photo of the corpse on Facebook went viral.
Death Penalty is a highly controversial topic of debate in countries with high crime rates. Is it really effective anyway? After all, the death penalty can be issued but it can only take effect when and if the suspect gets caught. So the majority of the time, the death penalty only serves as a frightening reminder of the severe punishment that awaits anyone who commits an equally frightening crime. There's also the lingering question of morality and humanity.
In a world of equality, you only get one thing in exchange for something of equal or greater value. But this doesn't mean that the life of one person is equal to the life of another. Life is not quantifiable and therefore can not (and should not) be exchanged for another. The person killed cannot be revived by the death of the killer. So what do you get for the death penalty? Justice. But life isn't necessarily equal to justice, so why take it away, anyway?
If people are really serious about getting justice using methods that completely answers or pays back the crime of the guilty, then let them live a life of torment. Torture them for who knows how long. Go medieval, go draconian. It's never really going to end unless there's a definite answer that would satisfy all those concerned.
Humanitarians and religious people will probably be anti-death penalty because of their moral code and religious laws, while those greatly affected and continuously plagued by the prospect of having a murderer behind them are most likely pro-death penalty.
But you can't really scare people with death. While I have no idea what dying is like, based from a lot of sources, it is over before you get to think about it. Torture on the other hand is continuous. Nothing is more painful than being placed in the middle of life and death. When the body is pushed to the limit, the will of the person inside slowly gets tarnished, they slowly die. Before you know it, they will wish for their own death. Absolute justice is received not by death but by extreme pain.
Call it an idea from a fantasy book, but if unsure answers and halfhearted remarks are all that's said to address the problem then I'm afraid that the road ahead would most likely be painted bloody red.
The net is buzzing about the merits of returning the Death Penalty in the country after the news of a man who murdered his seven year old daughter and posted a photo of the corpse on Facebook went viral.
Death Penalty is a highly controversial topic of debate in countries with high crime rates. Is it really effective anyway? After all, the death penalty can be issued but it can only take effect when and if the suspect gets caught. So the majority of the time, the death penalty only serves as a frightening reminder of the severe punishment that awaits anyone who commits an equally frightening crime. There's also the lingering question of morality and humanity.
In a world of equality, you only get one thing in exchange for something of equal or greater value. But this doesn't mean that the life of one person is equal to the life of another. Life is not quantifiable and therefore can not (and should not) be exchanged for another. The person killed cannot be revived by the death of the killer. So what do you get for the death penalty? Justice. But life isn't necessarily equal to justice, so why take it away, anyway?
If people are really serious about getting justice using methods that completely answers or pays back the crime of the guilty, then let them live a life of torment. Torture them for who knows how long. Go medieval, go draconian. It's never really going to end unless there's a definite answer that would satisfy all those concerned.
Humanitarians and religious people will probably be anti-death penalty because of their moral code and religious laws, while those greatly affected and continuously plagued by the prospect of having a murderer behind them are most likely pro-death penalty.
But you can't really scare people with death. While I have no idea what dying is like, based from a lot of sources, it is over before you get to think about it. Torture on the other hand is continuous. Nothing is more painful than being placed in the middle of life and death. When the body is pushed to the limit, the will of the person inside slowly gets tarnished, they slowly die. Before you know it, they will wish for their own death. Absolute justice is received not by death but by extreme pain.
Call it an idea from a fantasy book, but if unsure answers and halfhearted remarks are all that's said to address the problem then I'm afraid that the road ahead would most likely be painted bloody red.
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