but if I was offered the two options I dont know which I would pick.
Yes, you may ponder this when you have the choice. The death penalty isn’t a choice between life in prison and death, the state has decided to kill you.
We can ponder the ethics and morality of the situation based on real world conditions, there are many contexts to think about, but those options are closed if the state kills someone without exploring them.
Combatants aren’t civilians, captured combatants are still combatants and can be tried in a different manner than civilians. But I mean, outside of potentially being freed by sympathizers in the future, what would be the problem with overseeing someone deemed irredeemable to their natural death?
Innocent people are taken off of death row all the time.
You can’t free the dead.
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Let’s roll back to your statement
Yes, you may ponder this when you have the choice. The death penalty isn’t a choice between life in prison and death, the state has decided to kill you.
We can ponder the ethics and morality of the situation based on real world conditions, there are many contexts to think about, but those options are closed if the state kills someone without exploring them.
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Combatants aren’t civilians, captured combatants are still combatants and can be tried in a different manner than civilians. But I mean, outside of potentially being freed by sympathizers in the future, what would be the problem with overseeing someone deemed irredeemable to their natural death?
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