On 9 June 2014 11:22, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> Back to the death penalty. Its hard for me to determine what disuades > people from murdering, if anything. For most people you don't need to dissuade them, except in extreme situations, imho. For psychopaths and normal people in extreme situations, I imagine it's the prospect of getting caught and punished (and no doubt the religious idea that they will *inevitably* be punished, possibly for eternity, helps). Plus the natural desire not to kill people (see previous posts on the difficulties armies have getting soldiers to kill people). > Is there such a thing as just revenge? > > Justice and revenge are human inventions, so the question is context dependent. All one can say is that neither of these appear to exist naturally, except insofar as humans have created them, but that they both arise from tendencies with, I'm sure, genetic and social underpinnings. (So some animals exhibit them too, I imagine.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
