No, that’s not my argument at all. I agree with the utilitarian argument that imprisonment is better than the death penalty.
What I’m saying is that every moral argument against the death penalty can also be applied to life imprisonment. If you justify your anti-death penalty stance on the moral argument (“innocent people will die”, as the first person I replied to said), then it is a slippery slope to a prison abolitionist position.
It’s not about acceptance, it’s about the underlying logic. You can assert your position all day, I’m asking why.
Why don’t you say “Punishment sucks, yes, but that’s part of a crime prevention system. Imprisonment does not need to be a part of that system. How hard is that to accept”?
Or why don’t you say “death sucks, yes, but that’s part of a crime and punishment system. How hard is that to accept”?
Because every moral argument that can be applied to the death penalty can also be applied to imprisonment. I think we’re going in a circle here.
The system you support imprisons thousands of innocent people, many of them for life. How do you morally justify this? Is it just a trolley problem for you, and the innocent people rotting to death in prison are just the unfortunate ones tied to the tracks, and they must die for the good of the system?
Because every moral argument that can be applied to the death penalty can also be applied to imprisonment.
No I disagree. The goal is simple and specific: stop wrongful executions.
You can say “well also other stuff is bad” sure, thats not the point here. the point is that we make ONE change and save lives. Stop executions. No other changes are required. The system, the facilities, the employees, everything else already exists to facilitate this.
So while there are MANY other improvements that can be made to the justice system this is ONE SINGLE SIMPLE change that WOULD ABSOLUTELY save lives.
So youre saying being wrongly imprisoned is just as bad as being murdered? No, I dont agree with that
No, that’s not my argument at all. I agree with the utilitarian argument that imprisonment is better than the death penalty.
What I’m saying is that every moral argument against the death penalty can also be applied to life imprisonment. If you justify your anti-death penalty stance on the moral argument (“innocent people will die”, as the first person I replied to said), then it is a slippery slope to a prison abolitionist position.
So you ARE equating living life in confinement with literal death. This is where we disagree. Death and imprisonment are not at all the same or equal.
Imprisonment sucks, yes, but thats part of a crime and punishment system. Death does not need to be part of that system. How hard is that to accept?
It’s not about acceptance, it’s about the underlying logic. You can assert your position all day, I’m asking why.
Why don’t you say “Punishment sucks, yes, but that’s part of a crime prevention system. Imprisonment does not need to be a part of that system. How hard is that to accept”?
Or why don’t you say “death sucks, yes, but that’s part of a crime and punishment system. How hard is that to accept”?
Because we do not need to execute people, but we do need to imprison some.
Why is it that when I say ‘we shouldnt kill people’ you say ‘then why even lock them up?’
Because every moral argument that can be applied to the death penalty can also be applied to imprisonment. I think we’re going in a circle here.
The system you support imprisons thousands of innocent people, many of them for life. How do you morally justify this? Is it just a trolley problem for you, and the innocent people rotting to death in prison are just the unfortunate ones tied to the tracks, and they must die for the good of the system?
No I disagree. The goal is simple and specific: stop wrongful executions.
You can say “well also other stuff is bad” sure, thats not the point here. the point is that we make ONE change and save lives. Stop executions. No other changes are required. The system, the facilities, the employees, everything else already exists to facilitate this.
So while there are MANY other improvements that can be made to the justice system this is ONE SINGLE SIMPLE change that WOULD ABSOLUTELY save lives.
Why havent we done it?