It’s like the death penalty - just because they deserve it doesn’t mean it’s a wise policy decision. Figuring out who inflicted it on others is the hard part.
I mean, yes but no, I think it’s not moral for the government to kill people. I don’t think that even if we could establish with 100% certainty that someone murdered someone, they should be killed. I don’t think it is a matter of good or bad policy, but about right and wrong.
If the law is “if you kill him, we kill you”, then what we have is a strictly retributionary law. That’s not justice, in my opinion. One can debate it endlessly, of course.
It’s like the death penalty - just because they deserve it doesn’t mean it’s a wise policy decision. Figuring out who inflicted it on others is the hard part.
I mean, yes but no, I think it’s not moral for the government to kill people. I don’t think that even if we could establish with 100% certainty that someone murdered someone, they should be killed. I don’t think it is a matter of good or bad policy, but about right and wrong.
If the law is “if you kill him, we kill you”, then what we have is a strictly retributionary law. That’s not justice, in my opinion. One can debate it endlessly, of course.
Except! Treason. But that’s a bit different.