Dear 3WDave,
You wrote 11/3 10:37 -0600:
'to take, "If you kill, we will kill you" permanently and forever off the
table ... [is to] say to the individual ... "There is nothing so horrible
that you can do to anything or anybody for which society, or anybody, will
punish you either in kind or more severely".'
I think a high-quality society (led by intellect) can afford to NOT 'return
the favor' to its criminals, but to limit their freedom to do harm until
they have learned not to do harm. That's not ignoring the law of the jungle,
but setting limits to it and safeguarding at a minimum the individual's
right to its life (if not always to it's freedom).
Unfortunately global society is not such a high-quality society yet, partly
due to unilateral tendencies in the USA.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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