{"id":7982,"date":"2014-05-02T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T11:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/02\/capital-punishment-and-the-difference-between-conservatives-and-leftists\/"},"modified":"2014-05-02T11:42:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T11:42:33","slug":"capital-punishment-and-the-difference-between-conservatives-and-leftists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/05\/02\/capital-punishment-and-the-difference-between-conservatives-and-leftists\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Punishment and the Difference between Conservatives and Leftists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The difference springs to the eye by comparison of this morally sane piece<\/a> by Peter Hitchens and this one<\/a> by Hendrik Hertzberg.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hendrik makes no mention of the crime, the victim, and her horrible death. Instead, typical leftist that he is, he invests his interest in the perceived underdog without any consideration of why the dirty dog is in his inferior position.  Hitchens puts the emphasis where it belongs.  Hendrik:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The classic justifications for the death penalty have not changed much over the centuries. There is retribution\u2014an eye for an eye, a life for a life. There is deterrence\u2014this is what awaits you if you transgress. And there is awe\u2014a graphic demonstration of the ultimate power of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No talk of justice, but a shabby suggestion that the principle that the punishment must fit the crime is to be interpreted as a narrow lex talionis<\/em> injunction, as if the death penalty is in every case like the barbarity of gouging out the eye of the eye-gouger.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is also something curious about leftists, who are totalitarians from the ground up, the top down, and from side to side, worrying about the ultimate power of the state.  These are same moral cretins who want to use the power of the state to force florists and caterers to violate their consciences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who doesn't see the moral necessity of the death penalty in certain carefully circumscribed cases, anyone who thinks that it is always and everywhere and in principle immoral, is morally obtuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The difference springs to the eye by comparison of this morally sane piece by Peter Hitchens and this one by Hendrik Hertzberg. Hendrik makes no mention of the crime, the victim, and her horrible death. Instead, typical leftist that he is, he invests his interest in the perceived underdog without any consideration of why the … Continue reading “Capital Punishment and the Difference between Conservatives and Leftists”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,8,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-crime-and-punishment","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}