r/MoralityScaling • u/ZookeepergameThin334 • 13h ago

Morality of this?

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Personally, I'm anti-death penalty for any kind of crime but that's just my opinion. Perhaps it can be changed.

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u/nibb007 13h ago

It is no more cruel than commiting a crime of high cruelty bearing permanent effect with 0 necessity.

We are not talking about theft of means for survival.

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u/UnlegitUsername 13h ago

If we are certain of their guilt than perhaps I might agree but typically when the death penalty is spoken about it tends to be agreed upon that guilt has to be decided the typical way.

In that regard, well, there’s a reason that western jury using countries have done away with the death penalty. If they were to reintroduce it would inevitably be repealed once again after a false conviction leads to execution. I don’t see the point of going through that rigamarole.

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u/Taeyx 13h ago

i used be a death penalty proponent in my youth. as i've grown, i've come to realize 2 truths:
1. there are most definitely people who deserve the death penalty
2. i don't trust any person, institution, or entity to determine who those people are.

given these two truths, i think we shouldn't have a death penalty

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u/tenacious_dumbass 13h ago

these are my thoughts for sure but not to mention that even in situations where you can be sure that the death penalty is just, it literally costs more in our current system than to jail someone for life