by EminemBase » Sep 9th, '11, 21:55
I'm against capitol punishment for a very simple reason...
I don't think a government can enforce laws which prohibit violence and murder and then be seen to defy their own laws and keep face.
It's a glaring contradiction and regardless of what justification anybody wants to give for it, the simple fact is: by doing that, the government is by definition saying they are above the law. It undermines the laws, undermines the government and it's arrogant.
Also, I think it's fairly pointless and solves nothing.
If you just kill 'evil' men (serial-killers, dictators)... you're just sweeping them under the rug. Killing them doesn't stop the next generation of murderers, dictators or psychopaths. As people aren't born psychotic, or very few at least. Most are TURNED psychoatic.
So it's not only contradictary, arrogant and ironic for the government to kill people, but it's also dismissive of the true source of the problematic behaviour and people it aims to rid. Obviously these people need to be locked-up, for the safety of others, but you can't ignore the root.
And as usual, capitalism can be blamed for that. You can pretty much blame capitlism for just about anything, almost every form of crime, bad psychology or society issues trace back to it.
I've studied serial-killers, just out of interest in the psychology and trying to figure them out and, I've yet to come across a single one that wasn't mentally abused or 'turned' or angered in some severe way in their childhood or lifetime. And that stems from parenting, and the bad parenting or bad childhood environment stems from social imbalance and class divide.
And class divide, is rooted in capitalism. Due to our structure and the monetary system, or any kind of batering system which encourages a darwinian, ruthless psychology and greed... some will always draw the short straw by definition. They have to, for the others to reap the benefits. And abject poverty takes care of the rest.
It's no coincidence that all these serial-killers normally come from poor backgrounds, or, had parents which came from poor, abusive backgrounds. Abusive and angry psychology and lack of wealth, comfort and security, go hand in hand. Which is why affluent, well-mannered criminals of such henious crimes are more rare. There are plenty of rich criminals, but the majority are driven by greed, not purely evil psychology.
If you abolish the class divide, you abolish a lot of bad conditioning, bad childhood environment, bad society structure, and general imbalance that creates a standoffish mentally between the poor and the rich. And it abolishes the paranoia of those in-between.
Capitalism, ruins, everything.