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 @BobaFett215Democratfrom Alaska  commented…1yr1Y

Except we aren't killing innocent people, they are.

  @NameIGuessLolSocialist  from Ohio  disagreed…8mos8MO

A murderer does not necessarily have to kill an innocent person in order to be a murderer. Likewise, an executioner, even if he kills only guilty people, still murders; only legally.

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  disagreed…8mos8MO

You don't understand the distinction between murder and other forms of killing. Murder is the unprovoked killing of an innocent person. You can, however, kill people out of self-defence, or, as an executioner, to exact justice on someone who has killed innocent people, and will kill more if released.

  @NameIGuessLolSocialist  from Ohio  disagreed…8mos8MO

“and will kill more if released.”

Even if I shared your morals, this is a fallacious argument.

Linked below is a spreadsheet of the intentional homicide rates of various countries. The data cited here will be taken from the year 2022.

Norway has made both capital punishment and life without parole illegal. However, the intentional homicide rate was about 0.55 per 100,000 people in the country in 2022.

By comparison, in the same year, the United States, one of the only advanced democracies to carry out capital punishment, shows an intentional homicide rate of 6.38 per 100,000 people in the country.

The reason for such low homicide rates in Norway is due to their extensive rehabilitative care and welfare programs for criminals, which the US lacks in both quality and quantity.

dp-intentional-homicide-victims | dataUNODChttps://dataunodc.un.org/dp-intentional-homicide-victims

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…7mos7MO

Homicide rates in Norway, comparative to other societies at other times, are actually high. They only appear low, because the norm in Western nations is importing third world aliens and mass-immigration great replacement policies that wreak havoc and create crime waves. Norway blessedly is different, in that regard, and that explains the disparity.

  @Renaldo-MoonGreen  from Pennsylvania  disagreed…6mos6MO

Norway takes in a lot of immigrants too. Scandinavia is one of the most popular countries for immigrants to go to.

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