Life and reputation are hardly synonymous. They are not the same. Try Webster's dictionary and see for yourself. Regards DL
Everything leads to death. Poverty is relative, as is happiness. I'm old, poor, sick and happy. So what's your point?
That what look like "humane punishments" eventually have the same consequences as the death penalty; and that as such, the presence of those "humane punishments" is no real indicator that a society is civilized, or more civilized than those that do have the death penalty. The methods may be different, but the end result is the same.
Life in prison is not the same as death, you can read books, learn things, make friends, even get married and have conjugal visits.
Not so. The country without a death penalty would be seen as venerating life for it's own sake, --- while the one with the death penalty would be seen as hypocritical as it would say it venerates life while taking it. Regards DL
That has little relevance to what I said about the death penalty but it is certainly better than killing when we say we should not kill and should venerate life. Regards DL