In Defense of the Death Penalty – Amelia May Johnson

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Yes, innocent people are convicted of crimes they didn’t commit, and a lot of the folks on death row are innocent, but that isn’t an argument against capital punishment, it’s an argument against the system that deals it.

So an admittedly imperfect system should be able to administer the death penalty? What if we apply that to other things, how about a toaster that occasionally gives a lethal shock but that mostly makes fantastic toast? Should we keep using that toaster because we're not against toasters even though that one toaster kills innocent people. It's just a badly implemented toaster but we should still use it anyways????

Btw, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings the other day, that wasn't my intention.

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So an admittedly imperfect system should be able to administer the death penalty?

Ideally, no, but the solution is to just fix the system. We could temporarily suspend it until the system is fixed, but you have to fix it to do that in the first place, so it seems unnecessary.

Like I said in the post: no one in the right mind would suggest legalizing every crime just because the punishments are misused.

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I'm over it.

My dude. Fantastic. So... you over wearing women's clothing?

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Blocked for strawman arguments. You can't argue pedophiles should get to live at the expense of taxpayers just because some random person who things they should hang is trans.

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Don't get your panties all twisted. They don't fit right as it is lol.

I wanna help dude. It bugs me you wanna be a girl when you make a terrible girl. All us dudes do. Let's leave womanhood to women. Appropriation is wrong.