Thoughts on the death penalty?

[TheGame]

I'm not putting words in your mouth. I just think the act of supporting any pre emptive war in some cases and not suppoorting the death penalty in all cases is hippocritical. Which is exactly what you're doing/saying. (Now if you're saying attacking pre-emptively in self defense is wrong in ALL cases, then you can ignore the rest of this post because then I don't think you're a hipocrite.)

The reasoning for having a millitary and for having punishments for crimes in a peaceful country is deterrence. And when someone actually does step out of bounds (or threatens to), then sometimes you have to flex your deterrent to get a point across.

If there was no threat of the US millitary coming in and killing thousands of people, then a lot of wars that didn't happen could have happend. Just like if there was no threat of the death penalty (or cops just blowing your brains out on the spot).. a lot of crimes that would have happend didn't happen.

I personally support the idea that killing pre-emptively in self defense is ok, but I'm not the person who is saying that killing someone as a penalty for a crime they commit is universally wrong, you are.