Only because I try to consistently prefer that the death penalty be reserved for the most violent, cruel, unspeakable, inhuman acts. Like murder, torture, child molestation and rape.
Not pushing buttons on a keyboard to trick a computer program, evil though that was. Also not selling products, like drugs, to willing customers. That IMHO does not rise to the level of death penalty. It's a business transaction; one in which the buyer may knowingly get hurt through his own decisions.
If a guy buys a bottle of booze, chugs it, and immediately dies of alcohol poisoning, the liquor store owner literally sold him the drug that killed him. Should he be charged? Executed?
I don't want the state to have the power to annihilate human beings any more than necessary, because they will egregiously abuse it, as they do with all their other powers we grant them. Of course there are exceptions, but in general nonviolent crime IMHO isn't something we should give the state the power to kill people for.
Only because I try to consistently prefer that the death penalty be reserved for the most violent, cruel, unspeakable, inhuman acts. Like murder, torture, child molestation and rape.
Not pushing buttons on a keyboard to trick a computer program, evil though that was. Also not selling products, like drugs, to willing customers. That IMHO does not rise to the level of death penalty. It's a business transaction; one in which the buyer may knowingly get hurt through his own decisions.
If a guy buys a bottle of booze, chugs it, and immediately dies of alcohol poisoning, the liquor store owner literally sold him the drug that killed him. Should he be charged?
I don't want the state to have the power to annihilate human beings any more than necessary, because they will egregiously abuse it, as they do with all their other powers we grant them. Of course there are exceptions, but in general nonviolent crime IMHO isn't something we should give the state the power to kill people for.
Only because I try to consistently prefer that the death penalty be reserved for the most violent, cruel, unspeakable, inhuman acts. Like murder, torture, child molestation and rape.
Not pushing buttons on a keyboard to trick a computer program, evil though that was. Also not selling products, like drugs, to willing customers. That IMHO does not rise to the level of death penalty. It's a business transaction; one in which the buyer may knowingly get hurt through his own decisions.
If a guy buys a bottle of booze, chugs it, and dies, the liquor store owner literally sold him the drug that killed him. Should he be charged?
I don't want the state to have the power to annihilate human beings any more than necessary, because they will egregiously abuse it, as they do with all their other powers we grant them. Of course there are exceptions, but in general nonviolent crime IMHO isn't something we should give the state the power to kill people for.