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Death & morality
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Is it hypocrisy to oppose capital punishment on moral grounds yet condone war as sometimes being necessary? ... Perhaps _nobody_ has the right to decree death as punishment for a person, but then, doesn't that mean justifying war _by any means_ is a morally indefensible stance?
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It is not because sometimes you oppose the death sentance because of the possibility of innocence, and you favor war because it destroys the guilty (The government's actions are more concrete). Or, the death penalty will kill someone, losing a life, yet war may actually save lives from a government.
By the way, if this helps, I am opposed to the death penalty AND war.
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I agree with Scribble. It's not necessarily hypocrisy, though I'm fairly against both. There's almost always the possibility of killing someone who was innocent. It's more harsh to kill someone in that than to follow through with war when you no longer have a choice.
"No one has a right to decree death as punishment"
It depends on whether you take war as punishment or defense.
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I'm not sure that it is hypocrisy, only because the two terms- 'war' and 'capital punishment' seem incompatible. I mean, capital punishment is the decision to execute after judgmental process- first the defendant must be found guilty of a crime and then executed, essentially in cold blood, in front of witnesses. War seems like a different kettle of fish entirely. Although I DO see what you mean in comparing the two in that death is essentialy proscribed in both cases, the deaths that occur in in war are not really a form of punishment, are they? Also the decree of death could never be said to be 'for the greater good' in my opinion, whereas it is possible the reasonin for war could be to prevent further loss of life in future.
It was difficult to word my opinions on that one, so I hope I got my meaning across.
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