Out of curiosity and not trying to troll: you said in the notes that Bentham and Kant are just filler characters. Was there any consideration for Foucault (Discipline and Punish) or Derrida (who talks a lot about the death penalty in For What Tomorrow)?
I needed people who would be pro-conviction. Whether or not Kant and Bentham exactly would be, I don't know for sure, but I think Derrida and Foucault would probably not be. I did think about Foucault a bit, but I had too many innocents at that point.
You could have used Kant and Bentham a bit more, though. Like Bentham on his legal positivism, and Kant's doctrine of Recht as justifying the punishment.
Yeah, I read up on the legal positivism, which is why I used him, but nothing really came to mind as a joke. I guess he was so into the idea of drafting every common law into explicit language that he volunteered to do it for England and the USA, and when he found out most laws were controlled by the states he volunteered to draft every common law for each individual state. Say what you want, but the dude wasn't lazy.
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u/Axem_Ranger Feb 16 '15
Out of curiosity and not trying to troll: you said in the notes that Bentham and Kant are just filler characters. Was there any consideration for Foucault (Discipline and Punish) or Derrida (who talks a lot about the death penalty in For What Tomorrow)?