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A world too small for the two of us…

Posted by luno in capital punishment, Utilitarianism (Monday August 22, 2005 at 12:32 pm)
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Bedau argues that opposition to the death penalty cannot be utterly unconditional.1 He asks us to imagine a world where the execution of a murderer would miraculously bring back to life the innocent victim. Could we still oppose the penalty on principle?
I don’t know, could we? I find it somehow easier to imagine a world […]