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Abolish capital punishment
I'm so tired of being a part of the murder of innocents on a systemic level.
I'm tired of being part of the murder of the guilty on a systemic level. No crime is heinous enough for me to say "Yeah, government, go ahead and murder us".
There are absolutely crimes worthy of removing you from the species, permanently.
But until we have a system that can do it with 100% accuracy it shouldnt be an option.
Blackstone's Ratio is very relevant here, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"
I don't disagree. There are some sick people in this world that create chaos and torture people for the remaining time here. I don't believe they deserve life.
However being framed for that is the problem. And I think it's a very hard teeter totter to walk without problems or mistakes.
Which is why I said that until we have a system that can dispense that justice with 100% accuracy and no error, it shouldnt be an option.
This guy wasn't an innocent. The testimony that they were trying to challenge was about him being a future risk to the public. He wasn't trying to say that there was evidence he didn't do it.
Hey, hi. Not what I'm talking about, thanks. People who are innocent of crimes are killed by capital punishment and I'm really tired of being involved in that against my will.