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b_b  ·  3766 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's talk about two things they say never to talk about:

Credit to mk for my line of thinking on capital punishment. It's not complicated, and it has nothing to do with moral judgement. Capital punishment is wrong, because the government shouldn't have the power to kill people. Who knows where they'll use it. We might think we're better than china or Iran, but it wouldn't take a sea change to fix that. They shouldn't have the option. Period.