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To: Neocon who wrote (81691)	6/14/2000 9:25:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I do not understand why. It's merely societal revenge. Why spend the money to do such a primitive thing?

To: Neocon who wrote (81691)	6/14/2000 9:30:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Life imprisonment is irreversible, too, unless you assume an early discovery of error. Are you going to give that person back the years taken from him? Obviously not, but real forms of restitution are possible. I am simply not sufficiently convinced of my own omniscience - or the omniscience of other humans - to be comfortable with the idea of one human deciding who deserves to live and who deserves to die. If we must, I think it reasonable to decide that one human is too dangerous to be allowed to live freely among other humans, but it should be done to ensure the safety of others in the community: because the penalty is necessary, not because it is just. Obviously there are some who are more confident of their omniscience than I.