Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by scott_karana on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:27PM
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FYI, aMoniker: you've been shadowbanned for more than three years...
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by ycitera on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @07:49PM
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They should show the shadow banned posts by default... they are so light anyways that you can barely see them if you don't highlight them with the mouse
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by patrickmay on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @05:05PM
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How can you see that he commented?
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by fnordfnordfnord on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @05:22PM
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Turn showdead on
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by aMoniker on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:19PM
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The same man who convinced the president to fund the creation of nuclear weapons.
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by jack9 on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:33PM
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All events are irreparable. Justice cannot be absolute, in either direction. This is not a flaw in morality, but in our limited abilities. Acceptance of that is not weakness, but awareness.
No amount of intelligence necessitates wisdom. Sorry Einstein.
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by rcthompson on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:39PM
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No punishment can be completely undone, but there are few, if any, punishments as irreparable as the death penalty.
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by oconnore on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:39PM
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Ya, somehow we think that releasing a falsely imprisoned person after decades is fixing it. We made it right! Well, no, you took away a significant chunk of their life, and likely ruined the rest of it as well.
That doesn't mean, however, that we should give up. We should be more careful about taking away life and freedom, and we should seek to make prison more fulfilling, so that people can have fuller lives when we deem them safe to be let out (because we discovered our error, or because they were rehabilitated).
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by TallGuyShort on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:52PM
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The problem is complete irreparability. If someone is falsely imprisoned, you can't undo that, but you can free them, pay them some kind of reparations, publicly exonerate them, etc. If someone is found to be wrongfully convicted after death, what do you do? Essentially nothing.
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by anon4 on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:53PM
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Well, taken to its logical conclusion, this argument supports abolishing jail, prison and all forms of punishment, since the crime is irreparable, therefore there's no point.
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by betenoire on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:47PM
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Somethings are less irreparable than others. In this case, death seems harder to undo.
Re:“This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
by pavel_lishin on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @05:03PM
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> All events are irreparable.
But some events are more reparable than others. Releasing a falsely accused man from prison after 20 years doesn't give him those 20 years back, but it gives him back the rest of his life.
And suggesting that because all events are irreparable, all events are thus morally equivalent is morally reprehensible.
"I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure."