I just joined the message board today. I apologize ahead of time if any of
my statements involve wrong assumptions to questions that have been answered
earlier.
"RICK
Ted Bundy kills people, which is immoral because people are sources of
ideas. If your society catches Ted Bundy and has a jail to safely lock him
away in, then that's the moral thing to do. But if your society has no
secure way to do so, it might have to kill him. Either that or risk the
consequences of letting him walk around and kill off even more sources of
ideas."
ZACH
I think that in order to fully understand what the MOQ would say about this
is to look at Bundy himself. He has quality because he is a person that is a
source of ideas. I think you must identify the types of ideas that a person
like Bundy would have and if these ideas are of any quality. Further, I feel
you must look at the possible situations that may arise if you were to let
someone like Bundy (Or Manson comes to mind) live and continue to output the
ideas that this type of person would have. Incarceration may limit but does
not extinguish freedom of speech and so these ideas of which Bundy is the
source may pose a problem to the rest of society. I don't think you can
state that because one is the source of ideas that their death would be
immoral. I think that the MOQ demands that we identify whether or not these
ideas have quality in the first place.
I am against capital punishment but not because Ted Bundy is the
potential source of ideas. On the contrary, the fact that people like him
can potentially spread ideas that I believe are of poor quality would be a
reason for me to favour the death penalty over incarceration.
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