Monster Essays - The Two Different Cases Regarding Capital Punishment
The Two Different Cases Regarding Capital Punishment
Thesis : In principle a case can be made on moral grounds both supporting and
opposing capital punishment.
Two different cases can be made. One is based on justice and the nature of a
moral community. This leads to a defense of capital punishment. The second is
based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community. This leads to a
rejection of capital punishment.
JUSTICE AND THE NATURE OF MORAL COMMUNITY
A central principal of a just society is that every person has an equal right to
"life, liberity, and happiness." Within that, an arguement for capi....
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