stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 8 months agoProsecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarketlockapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square145fedilinkarrow-up1413arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1406arrow-down1external-linkProsecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarketlockapnews.comstopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square145fedilinkfile-text
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.
minus-squarechitak166@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·edit-28 months ago The government says it’s okay to murder this person, so let’s murder him. By that “logic”, states also shouldn’t be allowed to imprison people.
minus-squareABCDE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·8 months agoOne you can reverse, mate, you know that.
minus-squarechitak166@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down6·8 months agoWoah, now we’re moving goalposts. I thought the argument was, “the state says it’s not okay to do this, and then they go and do it.”
minus-squareTimecircleline@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoImprisonment is theoretically less permanent than execution. But people definitely shouldn’t be profiting from imprisonment, and the conditions should be humane.
minus-squarechitak166@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-28 months agoSo what’s the point of the rhetorical argument: “the state says it’s not okay to do this, and then they go and do it”?
minus-squareTimecircleline@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoOh, please don’t misunderstand. I think the death penalty is barbaric. That wasn’t my argument at all.
minus-squareafraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months ago But people definitely shouldn’t be profiting from imprisonment, and the conditions should be humane. I have a friend who is a plumber and most of his work is from jails.
By that “logic”, states also shouldn’t be allowed to imprison people.
One you can reverse, mate, you know that.
Woah, now we’re moving goalposts.
I thought the argument was, “the state says it’s not okay to do this, and then they go and do it.”
You thought wrong.
Imprisonment is theoretically less permanent than execution.
But people definitely shouldn’t be profiting from imprisonment, and the conditions should be humane.
So what’s the point of the rhetorical argument: “the state says it’s not okay to do this, and then they go and do it”?
Oh, please don’t misunderstand. I think the death penalty is barbaric. That wasn’t my argument at all.
I have a friend who is a plumber and most of his work is from jails.