Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Conservative Supreme Court Justices Redefine Cruel and Unusual Punishment" video.

  1. What we need is some jurisdiction to outlaw all guns save muskets and flintlock pistols, have some freedom-loving chud sue, and then wait for the ruling to get appealed to the SC. Fingers crossed.
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  2. Everyone remembers fondly the Middle Ages—that time without crime.
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  3.  @theamazingautist2363  We should abolish prisons and move toward a restorative justice scheme of dealing with conflict and crime. I think the issue with the death penalty is not that it makes society no better than the killer: it's that it makes society worse. A person may kill for a variety of reasons, crimes of passion, personal gain, derangement, but the state kills while, allegedly, operating from a rational position, with no external coercion. In the criminal code, premeditated murder carries the harshest penalty, and this is the kind of murder the state reserves for itself to perpetrate, as it is the wont of any authority to exempt itself from certain of its laws. We should not allow the state, a giant, fallible apparatus of immense power, to have the ability to kill citizens it deems unworthy.
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