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Originally Posted by Rococo
Does that mean that insurance fraud, auto theft, identity theft, and a million other crimes should carry a punishment of death?
You really do want to live in 1300s, albeit with modern dental care.
Violent gratuitous crimes should carry the death penalty. Because only people useless to society commit them, you can't really describe someone who is willing to go out in the street and randomly assault people as a positive contributor to society in any reasonable model of what that person otherwise does in life.
The vast majority of violent crimes are committed by a tiny minority of people. A specific subset of young male adults, usually poor and uneducated (not always).
You should just be looking for an excuse to execute then legally at the first clear sign they are members of that very small group.
White collar crime instead is committed by people who are usually very net contributors to society, looking for an angle. Those deserve the chance to understand they should stop because there is something valuable to save (unlike for the person who randomly assaults).
For one you need a decent IQ to commit insurance fraud or identity theft and benefit from it, that already males you exceptionally more valuable as a human being than someone who is almost certainly very low IQ to assault randomly in the streets.
As we can objectively claim the perpetrators will be rankable statistically very differently in terms of human value, we should treat them differently.
But certainly reiterating white collar crime is a whole different matter and should be treated with the death penalty at some point. Or crime creating many millions of dollars of damage to someone.
The bloody code btw was 18th and 19th century, not 1300.
And it's one of the reason that country was at the time the most powerful and successful in world history. There is a correlation imho between removing the objectively worst people of society from existence and being better objectively as a society