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Originally Posted by Schneed10
A cost of doing business that I'm willing to accept, given today's increasing burden of proof when it comes to finding evidence required to obtain a conviction.
It's for the greater good. The accidental conviction and execution would have been done out of error, and therefore not equivocal to cold blooded murder.
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Originally Posted by Trample the Elderly
No, because there was no malicious intent.
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I'll buy the "greater good" argument, because it is a valid approach to moral reasoning -- not because I agree it is actually in the best interest of the people to grant the State the right to kill.
But, I won't buy the "warm blooded" argument. Just because a killing is planned, and absent of malicious intent, does not make it right.