, head of the Final Solution. They kidnapped him, brought him back to Israel, tried him, and executed him for genocide. Were they wrong?
I think you mean did he deserve it.
If you meant that, then they weren't wrong. The question would be, did he deserve to get off so easy, in fact.
But the relevance of that question to executing individuals who are mental children (have you answered about chronological ones yet?) isn't clear to me.
In fact, I stipulate that imo a lot of people "deserve" to be executed, in a sense. (I'm putting philosophical determinism aside here, lol.) But that there are too many reasons to choose another punishment to make it a good idea to execute them.
P.S.
I knew a man very active in the anti-dp movement who would say, after pointing out such things as the unfairness amounting to a rigged lottery with which the dp is administered, "It's not about them, it's about us."
I only half identify with that, actually. I like it, though. He was a mensch. |
