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I'm vaguely in favor of the death penalty, but not so much as a penalty.
It just seems that some humans are irredeemable and mentally broken enough that it seems like the only thing to do is to just remove them entirely.
If you had a tied up evil person (Hitler, Mao, Stalin, etc take your pick) and a gun in hand, what would you do?
For the punishment minded maybe they shoot the person in the gut and let him die a slow death over a week. I'd generally just shoot them in the head and be done with it.
If someone has personally wronged me I become all in favor of punishment. Maybe that makes me a hypocrite, but I feel that the emotional response is not a good guide for society wide policy.
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