• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Better a million guilty people serve a life sentence than one innocent person be mistakenly executed. The state shouldn’t be in the business of handing out punishments that can’t be overturned later.

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      9 months ago

      Better to ruin the lives of a million people than to take the life of one?

      You’re going to have to provide some serious philosophy to back that up.

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        9 months ago

        Killing innocent people is bad.

        Keeping guilty people in prison isn’t that bad.

        Boom. Philosophized.

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          9 months ago

          Somehow I missed that you qualified those two groups as innocent and guilty.