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[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's pretty basic harm reduction. We support harm reduction. A terrible person being killed is harm reduction even if a terrible person being imprisoned and being rehabilitated if at all possible and made to be as productive of a member of society as possible in prison would be better harm reduction. The world is too big and too awful to look at everything in absolutes.

And it's nice to see awful rich people actually get the real punishments they often deserve instead of poor people get those punishments that they often don't deserve.

[-] Murvel@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, yes. 'The death penalty is acceptable for some' is all I'm hearing.

You say harm reduction, I say Bullshit!

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's a very easy argument for us both to have while dealing entirely in hypotheticals of how we feel about what other people are doing. I'm not executing anyone and I'm not in any position to do so I'm just enjoying watching bad things happen to bad people. The fact that I don't trust anyone to be able to legally decide who deserves to be killed in cold blood doesn't mean I can't appreciate some real justice being done where it usually isn't.

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