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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by presentation on Friday November 13, 2020 @11:58AM (#25084295)
Also empirically speaking isn’t the death penalty not actually shown to be a great deterrent? [1]

[1] first google result I found. https://www.amnestyusa.org/issues/death-penalty/death-penalt...

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Re:Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed ... by AdmiralAsshat on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:07PM (#25084435)
We had a similar discussion once in an undergrad course I took on History of Christianity--just replace "death penalty" with "Hell."

The professor(and ordained priest)'s conclusion was the following: "Most Americans believe in Hell, but none of them think they're going there."

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