Reply #82: Not claiming that my opinion has more validity [View All]

[Orrex]

But your invocation of the 52% majority suggests that you think that there's empirical safety in numbers. By that logic, we can execute anyone at all, provided that we can get 52% of the people on board.

Show me the causative link, and we'll discuss it. Until you do that, then capital punishment is morally indistinguishable from murder. Perhaps it's worse, while we're at it, because it necessarily entails a component of vengeance that strikes me as primitive and regressive.