Really? To put it simply, is it ethical to kill mice/rats in research to save babies? If so, how many would be too many? Some people think no animals should be killed in the name of science.
Most of the civilized industrial world has found that wrong, but apparently you know better.
Interesting point about research on mice/rats. From my perspective, the analogy is not close enough to this one.
However, the fact that society has chosen to use mice for research shows that those decisions are made on regular basis.
Are you doing this on purpose or do you just not realize what you are doing? The point of the discussion is
not about what rights should be taken away from criminals or other topics.
My specific question to you was: If I could prove to you that for every 1 wrongful convicted child sexual abuser
we sentence to death, we could prevent the abuse of 1, 2, 5, 10 or 100 innocent children would you agree that
we should sentence child sexual abusers to death? Perhaps your problem is that you cannot understand
how sentencing people to death will save others. Below is my attempt to do this for you.
Here is my attempt to frame the question or clarify what I mean:
1. If it is proven that people who abuse children are repeat offenders
because they get light sentences;
2. If the above is true, then we can say that
sentencing those people to death will save other
children from harm.
3. If we can quantify the # of children who will be saved
from harm
4. If we can use historical data or other data to quantify the number of
people who will be wrongfully convicted and sentenced
to death,
5. Then we should be able to get some sort of number to use
in my scenario.
6. Finally if we can come up with all of these things, and say
sentencing child sexual abusers to death will save XX amount of
children from harm, but we might get it wrong YY amount of times
then would you be able to answer my question above?
Blackrock, why do you try to pick a fight where there isn't one. I am not saying
that I know better, or know worse.