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 Originally Posted by Sin Uggla
No kidding...
And those who couldn't be encouraged to pay were shot in the head, because you were allowed to do so ?
Do you not think it is specious to think that people who otherwise wouldn't murder would become murderers if it was legal?
This is sorta like the Christians' argument that if somebody doesn't believe in god, they don't have a motive to not do bad things. Just like it being abstractly okay for atheists to murder in some sense doesn't create murdering atheists, it not being illegal to kill somebody wouldn't make it more likely that you're going to do it. Murder is something that the overwhelming majority of people very much have a desire to not do, and in a case where it isn't illegal it's also not illegal for somebody to stop you from murdering them.
I'm not making a pro-killing-people argument. We already have a system where we believe it is okay to kill people when it is relegated in certain ways (to law enforcement in all sorts of situations, to self-defense, etc). I'm trying to make an argument that it would work better to have a system that doesn't fund killing by legal mandate
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