John Stuart Mill on capital punishment:
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Date: March 19th, 2018 12:24 AM Author: jet yapping partner
The key is the last sentence, where Mill describes death as "the least cruel mode in which it is possible adequately to deter from the crime." He is speaking here of specific deterrence.
What is interesting is Mill's apparent belief that it is more humane to execute certain criminals than to incapacitate them in other ways--for example, by permanent imprisonment.
What is unclear from this passage is whether Mill felt that life imprisonment is per se crueler than execution or, instead, that it was crueler given the prison conditions prevalent at that time. It is possible that improved prison conditions, coupled with advances in prison security--which make it all but impossible that a prisoner can ever commit additional harm--would change Mill's view. He was a utilitarian after all.
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Date: March 19th, 2018 8:29 AM Author: jet yapping partner
Talk about sophistry.
Nothing in that article even remotely suggests that executions served as the "weeding out" mechanism. In fact, the article's hypothesis that the weeding-out occurred sometime in the last 200,000 years--long before the advent of agriculture--suggests the contrary. Hunter-gatherers simply ostracized overly aggressive individuals. Once civilizations developed, individuals with psychopathic traits AND relative social power (e.g., overly aggressive members of a resource-advantaged clan) rose to the top of society through force (or threat thereof). Once in power, the psychopathic genes enabled succeeding generations of the ruling clan to retain power, eventually through the use of systematic executions.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922528&forum_id=2#35636366)
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Date: March 18th, 2018 11:43 PM Author: Brass irradiated garrison
“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die and how many are killed; but, from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly in the most dreadful evidence. A Power, a violence, at once hidden and palpable... has in each species appointed a certain number of animals to devour the others... And who [in this general carnage] exterminates him who will exterminate all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man... The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.”
-- Joseph de Maistre
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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 AM Author: stirring amethyst macaca forum
alternatively, make dan snyder own the local football team. that will cause enormous amounts of pain and misery in the capital.
hehe get it?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922528&forum_id=2#35636486) |
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