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In America, the rich controls the government. In China, the government controls the rich. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: if you deem killing hundreds to thousands of others by spreadsheet to make your line go up, you have to be made an example of. I don't care if Eichmann could have been rehabilitated or if Netanyahu can, they're not worth the manpower required to get them there.

Crimes of necessity are one thing, death or cruel punishment won't do a single bit. Crimes of greed? Those fucks only understand deterrence by threat of violence, because all they think of is themselves.

If the Sackler family had been executed for their crimes I bet you'd see far fewer claims denied and insulin wouldn't be worth an arm and a leg.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Counterpoint: if you deem killing hundreds to thousands of others by spreadsheet to make your line go up, you have to be made an example of.

Sure. Confiscate everything they have, confiscate everything their family has, put them in prison. There is little difference in deterrence between that and the death penalty.

I don’t care if Eichmann could have been rehabilitated or if Netanyahu can, they’re not worth the manpower required to get them there.

Whether you care or not is irrelevant when we're talking about a human life.

Crimes of necessity are one thing, death or cruel punishment won’t do a single bit. Crimes of greed? Those fucks only understand deterrence by threat of violence, because all they think of is themselves.

Sure. Imprisonment is definitionally violence.

If the Sackler family had been executed for their crimes I bet you’d see far fewer claims denied and insulin wouldn’t be worth an arm and a leg.

Or, uh, if this shit was properly regulated in the first place there wouldn't be as many parasites getting wealthy on it, and there would be no price gouging. Look at the rest of the "developed" world, insulin is basically free there, and 0 executions were needed to get there (unless we're counting the threat of proletariat revolution, but then the US also had that). Those who would still abuse the system could be imprisoned to stop them from doing so.