surely if you know nothing and feel nothing when you are dead then being dead is not a terrible thing and therefore the death penalty is not infact a punishment for the guilty but just an easy way out of taking responsibility for ones actions. however, if there is condemnation to hell for the wicked after death then the death penalty would be a punishment for the murderers, am i right?
2007-11-02 16:39:06 · 10 answers · asked by simonetta j 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It is not a matter of 'punishing the criminal' but rather an alternative to punishing the whole of society; to sentence an offender to life behind bars is essentially a fine imposed on every law abiding citizen - to allow a criminal the (second) chance to re-offend is to collectively share in the guilt of the criminals future actions...
2007-11-02 18:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Wizard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not so much a question of what the punisher's percieve so much as what they think the punished perceived.
At least in theory the idea behind the death penality is that it exists as a deterrent to keep people from wanting to kill other people (along with making the victims family feel justice was dealt), so even if you personally do not believe in the afterlife or think dying matters in anyway, it's irrelevant because that's not the principle point of punishment.
2007-11-03 06:32:24 · answer #2 · answered by Zen Cat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The capital punishment has the effect of permanently removing the guilty from the society, so that he/she is no more able to repeat the dastardly acts. There is no consideration of the guilty's afterlife, whether he goes to heaven or hell.
2007-11-03 01:09:41 · answer #3 · answered by yogeshwargarg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Idea is that there is value in life lived, whether it is free or behind bars. The death penalty deprives the guilty of that.
2007-11-02 23:47:43 · answer #4 · answered by God Told me so, To My Face 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"surely if you know nothing and feel nothing when you are dead then being dead is not a terrible thing"
Death penalty is not given to dead people but to living people who 'do know' and 'do feel.' So, your thinking is flawed if you think being dead is the same as dying.
2007-11-03 00:03:46 · answer #5 · answered by Uno 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not the afterlife that those people are concerned with...more often than not it's the fact that the life was taken in the first place.
It's also forcing the person to NOT deal with what they've done when they're still alive.
2007-11-03 00:06:42 · answer #6 · answered by Calypso Draggon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Give them death i dont care as long as I'm not paying for the a** anymore
2007-11-02 23:48:55 · answer #7 · answered by rider660r2 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
people who are pro-death penalty are kinda muddle-headed in lots of different ways.
this is just one of them.
2007-11-03 01:49:35 · answer #8 · answered by synopsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death hurts you know.
2007-11-02 23:50:03 · answer #9 · answered by carpe-diem 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right by whose standards?
2007-11-02 23:46:42 · answer #10 · answered by Dianne m 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋