Unit 1012 Cover Photo

Unit 1012 Cover Photo

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

LOUIS POJMAN HAD WARNED ABOUT THE A.CL.U DEMONS! [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY OCTOBER 12, 2014 TO SATURDAY OCTOBER 18, 2014]






“It is noteworthy that prominent abolitionists, such as Charles Black, Hugo Adam Bedau, Ramsey Clark, and Henry Schwarzschild, have admitted to Ernest van den Haag that even if every execution were to deter a hundred murders, they would oppose it, from which van den Haag concludes "to these abolitionist leaders, the life of every murderer is more valuable than the lives of a hundred prospective victims, for these abolitionists would spare the murderer, even if doing so will cost a hundred future victims their lives." Black and Bedau said they would favor abolishing the death penalty even if they knew that doing so would increase the homicide rate 1,000 per cent. This response of abolitionists is puzzling, since one of Bedau's arguments against the death penalty is that it doesn't bring back the dead. "We cannot do anything for the dead victims of crime. (How many of those who oppose the death penalty would continue to do so if, mirabile dictu, executing the murderer might bring the victim back to life?)" Apparently, he would support the death penalty if it brought a dead victim back to life, but not if it prevented a hundred innocent victims from being murdered.”
["Why the Death Penalty Is Morally Permissible," from the 2004 book edited by Adam Bedau and titled Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment?]

AUTHOR: Louis Paul Pojman (April 22, 1935-October 15, 2005) was an American philosopher and professor, whose name is most recognized as the author of over a hundred philosophy texts and anthologies which he himself read at more than sixty universities around the world and which continue to be used widely for educational purposes. Pojman was known for work in applied ethics and philosophy of religion.


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