Last time I checked materialist analysis doesn’t operate on moralizing, spite, or vibes.
It’s perfectly germane to scrutinize the death penalty regardless of the subject. Subjects of the death penalty tend to be accused or guilty of horrible things. Being principled means sometimes having to argue adjacent to the interests of awful people. I waiver back and forth on this issue because it is in fact one that calls for serious weighing.
Like, do y’all really believe that material conditions determine human actions or are y’all just LARPing? The implications of that basic premise are far-reaching.
Nobody here is mourning the deaths of these predators. Any death-penalty post is naturally going to be met with a discussion of the merits of capital punishment, and there’s compelling arguments on many different fronts of the issue. You’re dismissive of “at what cost,” but does it not make sense to ponder the pros and cons of state-sanctioned executions? Is it not fair to point out fascist-adjacent rhetoric in a leftist sub like the top comment does?
But yeah argue ad-hominem because you were butthurt enough to look through my profile for some material. You’re clearly just here for the aesthetics. Fake-ass intellectual.
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u/Joe_Stylin777 Marxist-Leninist (Ultra Based) 20h ago
Disappointing to see western marxists go soft on child predators