what does it mean ethical issue as term of capital punishment?
2006-11-23 01:37:58 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Ethical issues are questions of what types of policies we should promote as a society, and how we should collectively treat one another. Ethical issues against capital punishment are that society should not kill people, even as punishment, or that we shouldn't take a chance on a permanent, irrevocable form of punishment when there is so much room for error and inequality in the justice system. For example, DNA evidence has exonerated people on death row, and some major studies suggest that race of the victim strongly correlates with whether a perp will be sentenced to death.
I am not aware with ethical arguments for capital punishment, but there are "justice arguments," like "eye for an eye." That's from Hammurabi's code, and early Babylonian code of laws that for some reason, people still use in arguments.
I'm not saying that everything about it is bad, just that, it's 4000 years old... haven't we humans expanded our philosophy since then? so there, another ethical issue :)
2006-11-23 02:03:57 · answer #1 · answered by Fanafofana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is just a guess because the question doesn't seem clear to me, I'd need more info, for a better guess. ...
Some people have an ethical issue about the whole question of capital punishment. (Ex. The Bible says to forgive, which would eliminated capital punishment as an option for them.) On the other hand, some societies believe in 'an eye for an eye' which would also eliminated capital punishment as an option because once caught individual punishment would have been done.
Do you see what I mean?
2006-11-23 09:58:18 · answer #2 · answered by Diana P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking what is the ethical issue to do with capital punishment?
Is it ever correct to take a human life?
2006-11-23 09:46:48 · answer #3 · answered by Vanguard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it ethical for the government to kill a person when that person has committed a crime, no matter how heinious? How about when the majority believes it should be done? When they don't?
Is it ethical to force taxpayers to support a person who has committed a terrible crime when the public believes they should be executed?
2006-11-23 09:47:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋