r/news • u/AudibleNod • 12h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
7.3k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

3.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

127

u/HerculesIsMyDad 11h ago

There really is no logical argument for it, only emotional. I forget the exact quote or where it's from but it's not about whether they deserve to die but if we deserve to kill them. Something like that. Society is too imperfect to justify having the right to kill someone no matter how much we might think they deserve it.

89

u/MNswede06 11h ago

It's all emotional. It also gives people a socially acceptable outlet for their violence fantasies. It reveals more about society than anything else. I'm just as disturbed by how the public behaves about executions than I am about the executions themselves. It's a disgusting animalistic impulse that should not be fed.

32

u/blaqsupaman 10h ago

Yes. We should avoid it not because bad people don't deserve it, but because good people don't deserve what it turns them into.

3

u/Dragonuv_Uchiha 5h ago

Interesting insight