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by atoav 29 days ago
Just be wary that you might not like the middle ground between a serial killer and someone wbo insists all human life is sacred.
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There’s no middle ground, just that the serial killers and the people who insist that all human life is sacred are both destructive assuming that the sacred lifers take it to the extreme(i.e. try to force all resources and politics into saving all life whatever it takes).
An imo even better example is death penalty.

Some people are not redeemable. Abolishing the death penalty is a mistake.

Another even less controversial example is providing adults and elderly euthanasia under certain circumstances.

>Some people are not redeemable.

I agree entirely.

>Abolishing the death penalty is a mistake.

Unless we can devise a method of perfectly determining guilt, there will always be some false convictions. Personally, I’m not comfortable with executing innocent people. If that means keeping irredeemable killers alive in prison, I’m ok with that.