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Death Penalty
Title: Death Penalty
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 424 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Death Penalty
A civil society is one where disputes are settled by reasonable means. From this, it
can be inferred that violence is excluded from civil society except under emergency or self-
defence conditions.
Capital punishment is completely irrational from the standpoint of a civil society, but
are we civil? We’ve had thousands of years of human civilization to realize the fact that
governments will, sooner or later, abuse power and that is exactly what is …showed first 75 words of 424 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 424 total…and say “This is a good thing.” And, as I have said, it is completely unnecessary. Society’s
authorities executed Jesus Christ; society’s authorities executed Joan of Arc; society’s
authorities executed millions of Jews; society’s authorities virtually exterminated the Native
American. And still, it continues in less than half the countries in the world. The abuses of
power by society’s authorities are innumerable and indescribably heinous in their abuse of humanity.
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