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[-] HopingForBetter@lemmy.today 5 points 7 months ago

It's a very hard line to tow.

I think the death penalty should really only be allowed for mass murder / enslavement.

However, I doubt any billionaires are innocent of enslaving people, even if it's "I paid them ($0.07 / day, which is slave wages)!" So, fuck the ultra rich. They didn't get there by hard work; they got there by exploiting people and the system. Finances are not unlimited, so funneling that much money to yourself means you are directly depriving whole communities of livelihood and, almost always, actual life.

[-] Maven@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

My major issue with the death penalty is the very real chance of killing an innocent person. People have been wrongly arrested/convicted significant amount of times for mass murder situations, so while on principle I have no issues with the death penalty in mass murder cases... I can't support it because of the chance of it being the wrong person.

With billionaires, it's pretty easy to figure out exactly who is the billionaire out of a group of random people... Very hard to wrongfully convict someone of having over a billion dollars.

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