Heiho,
Here I can't imagine another definition of 'efficiency' than the economic one.
So feel also adressed about the hacked-off hands. Cheap and effective. And of the same termination.
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on a second thought:
your connotation about the government may work for you, because it is an inside point of view. It doesn't work for me, because I'm against death penalty in any country. If I'd accept it for the US because the citizens there would trust their government about death sentences I'd have to accept it for every government. Because formally this is declared everywhere else. This tastes too much of 'it's ok when we're doing it'.
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Quote: I think the death penalty might also be the efficient form of permanently removing a dangerous person from society. The inefficient form is life imprison without parole.
Here I can't imagine another definition of 'efficiency' than the economic one.
So feel also adressed about the hacked-off hands. Cheap and effective. And of the same termination.
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on a second thought:
your connotation about the government may work for you, because it is an inside point of view. It doesn't work for me, because I'm against death penalty in any country. If I'd accept it for the US because the citizens there would trust their government about death sentences I'd have to accept it for every government. Because formally this is declared everywhere else. This tastes too much of 'it's ok when we're doing it'.
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