T_Bone wrote:
Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
T_Bone wrote:
that'll learn'em.
Not much to learn when you're dead.
problem solved! Square with the house :-D
Or we could just let him go to kill some more hookers. There are people who would be morally OK with that too.
The advasntage of ONLY locking people up, and making it a rule, is that if you lock up someone who is innocent you can let them out. All the innocent people who have been killed in Texas get to stay dead. And because it is so permanent, and irreversable, the system has a high motivation for never admitting mistakes so that people can have confidence that innocents are not executed. Unfortunately this is an official fiction and not the truth.
The question becomes, "what propotion of innocent people are you willing to have executed to maintain the system"? If the question includes the caveat, "one of them being you", the number is probably quite low, around zero.