True but what about the people that don't care about the harm that they do and just enjoy raping and killing children? The type of people that do this more than twice...the type of people that don't learn and go right back to their old ways. I know of people like this and they are sick bastards who don't deserve to live in my eyes. You or others may even consider me a sick bastard for even thinking that death penalty should be allowed but for a lot of people, execution just has to be done.
I'd class people like that as mentally ill (although you have to be careful when judging that people are ill just because they don't match whatever version of society they were born into). But, as such, I'd think they need treatment. When we start killing people for being ill, it's a slippery slope as to what else we'll kill them for just because it's convenient.
Where do we draw the distinction between criminal tendencies, mental illness, or natural propensity to not care, though? Because it's such a difficult question, it doesn't have an easy answer. Probably why some people believe in the death penalty and some don't.
Hmm... you make a good point but I personally think the mental illness thing is used as an escape route. Some of these people don't need treatment and its not like they even have an OCD for killing - they just want to. And for that reason they should just die themselves. There are just some cruel sadistic people that hurt others but there is nothing seriously wrong with them - I think its just an excuse.
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True but what about the people that don't care about the harm that they do and just enjoy raping and killing children? The type of people that do this more than twice...the type of people that don't learn and go right back to their old ways. I know of people like this and they are sick bastards who don't deserve to live in my eyes. You or others may even consider me a sick bastard for even thinking that death penalty should be allowed but for a lot of people, execution just has to be done.
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I'd class people like that as mentally ill (although you have to be careful when judging that people are ill just because they don't match whatever version of society they were born into). But, as such, I'd think they need treatment. When we start killing people for being ill, it's a slippery slope as to what else we'll kill them for just because it's convenient.
Where do we draw the distinction between criminal tendencies, mental illness, or natural propensity to not care, though? Because it's such a difficult question, it doesn't have an easy answer. Probably why some people believe in the death penalty and some don't.
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Hmm... you make a good point but I personally think the mental illness thing is used as an escape route. Some of these people don't need treatment and its not like they even have an OCD for killing - they just want to. And for that reason they should just die themselves. There are just some cruel sadistic people that hurt others but there is nothing seriously wrong with them - I think its just an excuse.