Pedro de San Patricio
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- Feb 14, 2015
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The act of killing another human being (with the exceptions largely being limited to cases of self defense, or they if they should pay you to kill either themselves or their child and you're one of the majority of doctors who doesn't give a single shit about the Hippocratic Oath) is a serious crime in this country. This is reasonable. One of the main reasons society exists is to protect our inherent human rights and lives. We punish criminals according to the severity of their crime. The punishment for murder (defined as killing another human being without what is legally considered to be "just" cause) is often to be killed by the state. How is this not hypocritical though? To kill a killer makes oneself a killer. You might not be a murderer as you did it with the state's rubber stamp, but you did kill another human being in revenge for their own killing of another human being. If you were to be consistent in the belief that humans who kill humans should die, then shouldn't the executioner have his own executioner on standby?