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Medics and Death Penalty
Medics and Death Penalty
The death penalty, even when it’s seen as something grievous for taking away
the most valuable thing a human being has, it shouldn’t be viewed as something
immoral because when and individual has reached the point to be considered
worthy of it, he must had committed some sort of capital crime or a serious
offense. Rousseau, in his Social Contract says that when a member of society
commits a felony so severe that it alters/shakes/perverts/ the social stability, he
will lose everything that bounds him to it, therefore he won’t deserve clemency
or protection from other members of society. Also, ordaining death penalty in
crimes in crimes such as murder, raping of minors, and so on, might be an
efficient way to prevent these, and seen from an utilitarian perspective,
prosecuting the death penalty is more economic to the state than providing for a
criminal when he’s under life imprisonment.