Saying the legal system, being a system, can not be perfect means anyone supporting the death penalty supports killing innocent people is bullshit.
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- Do you believe that the judicial system is 100% infallible?
If Yes: You have not "limited your thinking" via logic. (This is not an actual option).
If No: Then you must acknowledge the possibility that people will be wrongly convicted/sentenced/executed.
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Yes is an option, like it or not. No, does not mean there is a possibility.
First, the legal system deals with more than death penalty cases.
Second, attention and care is allocated by the seriousness of the consequences.
Traffic tickets, you pay or go to court, lose and you have one appeal.
Death penalty cases are long and complicated with many mandatory appeals and reviews, designed to check and correct any mistakes along the way. It would take a bunch of mistakes, unchecked and uncorrected, and that's not happening.
I can make wrong turns on the way to work and still get to the right place.
So no, I don't buy because it's not 100% infallible they are going to execute any innocent people. That is not a given.
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- Do you support the state-sanctioned execution of innocent human beings?
If Yes: You must consciously accept innocent deaths as a trade-off for the benefits of the Death Penalty.
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No must about it. That's only true if I buy your previous premise and I don't.
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If No: You do not accept innocent deaths as a trade-off for the benefits of the Death Penalty. You cannot support the Death Penalty.
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That's not true either.
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If No, BUT you SUPPORT the Death Penalty: You have not "limited your thinking" via logic. (This is not an actual option).
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Why, because I must accept your logic, you carefully constructed to lead to where you want it to go? No, I believe your logic is flawed. Like many things that make sense when you simplify to a few generalities, but don't actually work in the real world because that's not simple.
You can object to the Death penalty on moral grounds, if you wish, but the basis of executing innocents doesn't pass muster.