Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
Yes, killing them would be a way of punishing them. Punishment in the same way somebody out for vengeance might punish them, thus murdering them.
Which is just as irrelevant as everything else that comes out of your keyboard, since no one is talking about somebody out for vengeance committing murder. We're talking about society legally deciding to exact justice. By the way, why is it you consider it horrible for an individual to decide that death is the appropriate response to child molestation, but not for YOU, another individual, to decide that it isn't? Seems just as arrogant to me, with a whole lot less justification.
The death penalty can't possibly be anything but the state exacting vengeance on a criminal on behalf of their victim.
I said nothing about your argument being arrogant.
Can't possibly be? WHY can't it possibly be? Because you said so? I notice you have yet to tell us your definitions of "vengeance" and "justice" and explain the difference betwen the two, instead opting to just keep parroting, "Can't be justice, must be vengeance. Can't be justice, must be vengeance", as though we're just supposed to take your word for it.
I didn't say you said mine was arrogant. I said YOURS was. And unjustified.