Rather, capital
punishment must be understood for what it really is, and that is the
killing of a living person. A person committing a crime has no
relationship to the fact that the person will be killed. Bronze being
mined does not mean it will become a statue. We assign value to the bronze
to turn it into a statue, just like we assign our intentions to kill a
person as punishment to something that is really just killing somebody.
The death penalty is unethical therefore because it assumes things to be
true that are not necessarily true. It is wrong to make false assumptions
in regards to something so powerful as the death penalty, and thus the
death penalty should be reconsidered. Aristotle's logic is genius and
powerful and shows...
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