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Originally Posted by tsmall22204
Not sure where you are coming from. I do feel that anyone who puts this much time into comparing deaths has a problem. Is it racism?
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Perhaps my point was too subtle. I’m interested in odd contradictions wherever I find them. I’m in favor of rightIng inequity, but it seems so odd for the Times to write an article about an inequity when righting it would seem to require executing more people for the sake of fairness.
For example, if you earn $1,000 for some task and I earn 17 times more than you for doing the same task, $17,000, you might argue that we have the same job, so equity demands that we should earn the same amount. But if you owe the bank $1,000 and I owe the bank $17,000, you probably would not argue that fairness demands that you get to owe the bank $17,000, too. It wouldn’t be sensible. But that seems to be what the Times article was suggesting, if one considers the implications.
Actually, relatively few murderers are put on Death Row, and very few of those are executed. The death penalty is a very complicated issue, and I wasn’t trying to solve it. I was simply interested in an article that seemed not to understand the implications of what it was revealing.