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Originally Posted by Marc
Good points Nathan, but you've probably not had it happen to you and you'd think differently had anything if like.. your sibling/cousin/parent was murdered in cold blood.
My outside view on it would be the same as Nathan's however if it affected me like above, then I'd want the person to die.
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But that's the thing, I don't think you should judge a suitable punishment based on "that could have been my son/brother/etc." it just means you're being guided by an emotional response and I'd honestly like to think I wouldn't support it still, but obviously it's impossible to know..
Like I said in the other thread, I'm definitely against it, it just reduces you down to the same level of the criminal, I don't see how you can kill someone to try and show that killing is wrong, surely that's a fallacy. The only distinction between the two would be a (in my view) misguided sense of justice, and "right". I think it also doesn't leave any room to try and understand why people carry out their crimes, and doesn't leave any room for rehabilitation, which I know a lot on here won't believe or don't think is possible but I really believe it is. A life sentence is enough punishment in my opinion.