• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    So many arguments in here are basically “I don’t like the orphan crushing machine, but I guess if we have to have it, I’d rather the machine be on the fastest setting.”

    There’s no “execution method” argument that can exist with an anti-capital punishment opinion.

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      11 months ago

      There for sure is, there’s even one in the first part of your argument

      If the tactic is to outlaw it progressively then outlaw the worse methods first

      If you’re trying to blanket ban it all then that isn’t what’s happening here

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      11 months ago

      People recently invented a fancy thing called compromise. It means you can choose your second best preference if your first is not available.

      E.g. I would preffer steak for lunch but I will take pizza over being hungry.

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          11 months ago

          do you compromise your morals and throw the switch, killing only one person, or stick to your moral convictions and allow it to kill five by your inaction?

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            11 months ago

            Ah yes, life imprisonment, the greatest way to empower a murderer to kill… i guess other people in prison… who should be killed… so they wont kill each other… or…?

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              11 months ago

              well actually i meant was choosing harm reduction is better than tossing your hands up and doing nothing when your ideal isn’t an option but if you want to pretend that’s what i meant that’s fine. par for the course on this instance.