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I’m not a huge fan of the barbaric practice of making parents pay through taxes for their child’s murderer to eat and live out their days watching TV and lifting weights.
I’m not happy about my taxes being used to murder innocent people they were convinced definitely did a crime, and a human life is worth more than cash.
But it isn't. Of it was we would be behaving differently and not ignoring all the "bad" things companies do to people around the world to make money. But we mostly but on blinders and don't care.
Fortunately, you wouldn't be paying for it. You pay taxes and the state decides what to do with the money. And imprisoning the few people on death row is just a drop in the bucket of what they have available.
Here's some numbers. There's about 50 executions in the US per year. If the annual cost of imprisoning someone is 100.000$, that's 5 million per year. Per person in the US (say 340mio), that's about 1.5cts. Granted, now that these people aren't dying anymore, there'll be more people to take care of. If they live 50 extra years, that's 75cts each person in the US pays to keep them in the prison.
It's cheaper than death row and the death penalty though, so nice try. Why not just admit you want to kill them?
"Surely once my vengeance is sated, I'll finally be at peace!" Said many a tragic hero who only made everything worse.
Uhhh... Beg pardon?
Sorry, I wasn't clear at all lol. I was adding to your point, when you said "Why not just admit you want to kill them?"
I was basically trying to say this desire for revenge on criminals only begets more suffering and violence. It doesn't bring lasting peace.
You are not into this entire buddhism thing?
No, I am not.