Three new Spectrum Street Epistemology conversations from Eastern Europe will be released this week, all recorded in Pécs, Hungary. You’re not seeing double—the issue of rule by the U.S. vs. Russia was revisited in a different location. After viewing last week’s conversation on the topic, a subscriber asked, “Why do young people in Hungary seem to find a moral equivalence between the US and Russia?” We hear more reasons in this week’s discussion.
Why should society have to pay the enormous cost involved in a life sentence to feed and house a murderer. Not only do we lose an innocent life but we lose our hard earned money to support a murderer. If life in prison was on an island with no support from society imprisoned with the other murderers it might be justice.
I oppose the death penalty on unique grounds. It's a waste of judicial and legal resources that could be put to more productive use. Few people are executed before further development has turned them into someone very different from the person who committed the crime.
Thank you for the thought-inspiring videos, I really enjoyed all three. I found the first video about the death penalty the most interesting. My view has gone from supporting the death penalty, to favoring life without parole instead. I am hesitant to support the death penalty due to seeing examples of people wrongful imprisoned and being exonerated later due to DNA evidence. So, the possibility of innocence makes me want to say there should be no death penalty. I also see how the death penalty could help dissuade vigilantism.
The most compelling follow-up question was the one about the possibility of salvation for the convicted, from the perspective of a Christian. I had considered this question fairly recently when one of my favorite YouTube channels released a behavior analysis of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Jeffrey Dahmer - MONSTER but NOT PSYCHOPATH? True Crime Behavioral Analysis
In the video, Dahmer claims that he became a Christian. An interesting additional follow-up question in the death penalty video might be something like, "Would it be just for Jeffrey Dahmer to obtain salvation? What if he does, and one of your loved ones does not?"
I think ones answer to both questions would depend on how one would answer:
Why should society have to pay the enormous cost involved in a life sentence to feed and house a murderer. Not only do we lose an innocent life but we lose our hard earned money to support a murderer. If life in prison was on an island with no support from society imprisoned with the other murderers it might be justice.
I oppose the death penalty on unique grounds. It's a waste of judicial and legal resources that could be put to more productive use. Few people are executed before further development has turned them into someone very different from the person who committed the crime.
Thank you for the thought-inspiring videos, I really enjoyed all three. I found the first video about the death penalty the most interesting. My view has gone from supporting the death penalty, to favoring life without parole instead. I am hesitant to support the death penalty due to seeing examples of people wrongful imprisoned and being exonerated later due to DNA evidence. So, the possibility of innocence makes me want to say there should be no death penalty. I also see how the death penalty could help dissuade vigilantism.
The most compelling follow-up question was the one about the possibility of salvation for the convicted, from the perspective of a Christian. I had considered this question fairly recently when one of my favorite YouTube channels released a behavior analysis of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Jeffrey Dahmer - MONSTER but NOT PSYCHOPATH? True Crime Behavioral Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKcFTDFexPs&t=5095s
In the video, Dahmer claims that he became a Christian. An interesting additional follow-up question in the death penalty video might be something like, "Would it be just for Jeffrey Dahmer to obtain salvation? What if he does, and one of your loved ones does not?"
I think ones answer to both questions would depend on how one would answer:
Can one be fully just and fully merciful?
Thanks again for the great content!