It's not about the punishment fitting the crime, it's about it fitting the morals of the punish-er. Being tally-ho for public execution shows you are no better than them. The reason they hanged outlaws in the wild west is because it was cheaper than lining them up and shooting them, and the citizens of ye olde' days didn't really take kindly to some ruffian stealing **** they absolutely needed to survive. Nowadays we have more effective means of execution, and still we reserve them for capital offenses.
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It's stupid to compare the punisher to the person who done the act. Their motives are completely different. You're literally saying the U.S government is terrible because they'd be punishing someone who killed innocent children for no real good reason. I don't know why we live in such a soft generation of people who think that just because you ******* killed several kids with a shot gun that you shouldn't get some serious punishment for that. Or that the government would be weak for wanting to do such. Or how wanting the people who want them to face punishments they deserve makes the people just as bad somehow?
I mean seriously why is our generation so damn soft that people are willing to let someone who done such a crime not get the punishment they deserve? All because apparently such methods only spread fear and terror....which is kinda the entire ****** point. Why would you not want people who could cause shootings in school and kill people not to be absolutely too terrified to do it? Are we apparently supposed to just allow school shooters feel pride in such a thing?