• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I’m actually shocked the “limited small govt” crowd isn’t anti death penalty given it provides a legal avenue for state sanctioned murder.

      Feels like they’d be against that sort of thing.

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      4 months ago

      Idk what’s the upside of killing rabid dogs? Most dogs are better than most humans, so how does the math work out there?

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          4 months ago

          Rabies and psychopathy are diseases. The prognosis is terminal in both cases. Rabies is also far less bad than psychopathy, and both are mercy killings.

          Again, there is an argument against the death penalty but this ain’t it.

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            No they are not both diseases. psychopathy is not caused by infection or is it communicable. They have no basis for comparison. Also do you know anything at all about rabies progression? Its about the worst disease you can have if you have gone passed the point of no return to treat it.

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              Not all diseases are communicable or infectious. Psychopathy is a serious neurological pathology that robs humans of anything resembling humanity. That makes it a hell of a lot worse than rabies to my mind, but of course that’s debatable. Regardless, I’m not sure how ranking one horrible affliction against another makes much difference for this analogy.