e most worth and reverence to human lives is when they helprationalize their own standards like the possible victims of wrongful executions. Also, whenever we have to go to war, it happens that all thegunshots we fire that are meant for the enemy may hit and kill many of ourown soldiers and allies. It had been known to occur, but that unpleasantfactor doesn’t prevent us from going to war.On a final note, how can murder be taken seriously if the penalty isn’tequally as serious? A crime, after all is only as sever as the punishment thatfollows it. As Edward Konch once said:“It is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life thatwe affirm the highest value of human life.”As the flagship of democracy, it is the United States responsibility todemonstrate that public safety is not some trivial privilege, but an unalienablehuman right for every citizen. Therefore, the United States should set theexample that every civilized nation has a moral responsibility to defend thesafety of their citizens at least as diligently as they defend national securitywith an army.Every country in the world is ready and willing to kill thousands, evenmillions of human beings in brutal, merciless ways to defend their nation fromthe aggression of other countries. I don’t see why public safety doesn’tdeserve as much respect and protection as a nation’s national security does. In fact, it can be reasonably argued that supporting armies and waging war is far more barbarous than the death penalty. So I find it hypocritical that thesame countries who have abolished capital punishment because it is“barbaric” are at the same time prepared to enforce political power and defend their territorial claims through infinitely more violence and bloodshedthan the death penalty would ever require.The whole reason why nations and governments exist is to defend their citizens from vicious criminals. When it...
