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hedge-rambles · 5 months ago

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Once again reminding people that a lot of their ideas for justice in their utopian anarchist society are literally just lynch mobs.

And like, for those who aren't aware: there's a decent hypothesis that when a society uses capital punishment, the message people take home from that is less "well I'd better not murder anyone", and more along the lines of "sometimes murder is totally ok".

Hey bro/ster I'm super sorry to have to be the one to break this to you, but uh sometimes being a socialist means, you know, putting your dreams of terrorism down for a minute and talking about public policy and how your proposed form of government would like, uhhhhh................ work.

#social justice #I mean I get that it's unintiutive that the death penalty actually seemingly increases the murder rate #but the thing is it's just not the deterrent people imagine #incarceration is also a pretty serious deterrent like y'know people generally don't want that either #and it also doesn't fully stop people doing murders #however in the case of capital punishment it's like...it very literally is is state sanctioned murder #and it officially states that murder is ok if the victim is a Bad Person #now there's debate over whether this does affect people's likelihood to murder but it sure doesn't lower the rate #and regardless it's also notably irreversible #like if your future utopia includes the death penalty you need to tell me how you avoid any and all false convictions #if someone spends ten years in prison for a murder they didn't commit before new evidence exonerates them that's bad #but at least you can do something about it - try to make it right #the new evidence is little comfort to a corpse #incarceration is also a whole issue mind and I'm not saying that's an ideal solution either

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