Most_Ruin_3005 t1_iugk8x7 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:50 AM

Reply to comment by HaloGuy381 in Richard Branson declines invitation to debate death penalty with Shanmugam, says TV format 'turns serious debate into spectacle' by chronoistriggered

I posit that we shouldn't be executing anybody, regardless of the gravity of their crimes. We cannot grow, as a society and a species, if we cannot collectively control our most base instincts for hate and violence.

QuintoBlanco t1_iugliqg wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:03 AM

If somebody kills somebody I love, I want the killer dead.

But my personal desire for revenge should not be how society functions.

It seems that many people cannot make that distinction.

And we can see the problem when people are being executed for drug related offences.

Or for having extramarital sex...

Most_Ruin_3005 t1_iugmnbv wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:15 AM

Precisely. We should strive for society to not be how we are, but how we should be. The society we are a part of should be better example of empathy and reason than than any of it's individual members might be capable of; it must be grester than the sum of it's parts.