Comment by gjsman-1000
2 years ago
Interesting and unusual perspective - we have the one person in this thread who supports wildly expanding the death penalty.
Unless the person above is, of course, an anarchist who has no answer for what to do about Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Phillip Garrido, or Brian Mitchell. I would say that as imperfect and heavily flawed as our system is, "Perfect is the enemy of good."
> what to do about Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Phillip Garrido, or Brian Mitchell
Nothing. Those people are one-in-a-million anomalies. If it weren't for the media hype surrounding them, their impact on society would be comparable to the impact of deaths from lightning strikes. What do we do about people being struck by lightning? Nothing.
That’s nuts. Even if you were correct about that, and I’m not admitting any such thing, it isn’t how people work. If the state doesn’t provide justice, then the mob will.
"Justice" is an incredibly malleable idea that is largely shaped by what people are told. Until very, very recently, nobody gave a fuck about serial killers, or even knew they existed. If the hype stopped, there wouldn't be any mobs to worry about.
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That's not true. We have things in place to protect people and objects from lightning strikes. For example, lightning protection systems on tall buildings.
Those protect the building, not individual people. Nobody carries around mobile lightning rods, even though they were invented centuries ago.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_wick