Rigby5
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- Apr 23, 2017
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While there is a moral imperative in regards to the sanctity of life, there is no such in regards to private property. Property is not life.
So, stealing is OK, then? Or vandalism?
If human is sacred, then along with abortion, a truly ethical person would also oppose the death penalty.
I suppose that could be true, if you make no distinction between the very worst violent criminal,and the most innocent, defenseless child. I think I can safely speak for all sane, decent people, when I say that there is a very significant distinction, here, that you are trying to deny.
In any case, it is the one who defends murdering an innocent unborn child but who opposes putting a violent criminal to death, who has some explaining to do. But really, what more explanation is needed there, than to recognize that such a person is simply evil?
That is invalid for several reasons.
First of all is the fact no one is ever absolutely guilty, and you will have some innocents being convicted.
Second is that it is not the death of the person executed that matters, but that the person who does the execution can not be legally authorized to do it.
It does not matter if a criminal is dead or not, but that if you violate the definition of government deriving its authority from the defense of rights, then that is exceeded by someone being able to execute someone else, without it coming from a legal source of authorization. Legislators can not authorize executions because they do not have the authority to do so.