You are right about an important problem: how can you have to vote for a jury, one can not remain impossible if you are being judged by the people. Independent judges, not political ones are the only solution.
The idea that you can actually get consolation out of the fact that the murderer of someone you loved is killed as well, goes beyond me. The concept is too weird for my mind. But I have never lost someone trough violence, through someone else's hands, so how can I judge?
I'm not even interested in the percentage in favor in the us. Call me cynical, but in the Soviet Union the communist party always scored 99.something percent as well. Did they all agree? Doubt it. Conditioning goes on from a very early age. It should be a decision by a good politician, however scarce they may be.
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The idea that you can actually get consolation out of the fact that the murderer of someone you loved is killed as well, goes beyond me. The concept is too weird for my mind. But I have never lost someone trough violence, through someone else's hands, so how can I judge?
I'm not even interested in the percentage in favor in the us. Call me cynical, but in the Soviet Union the communist party always scored 99.something percent as well. Did they all agree? Doubt it. Conditioning goes on from a very early age. It should be a decision by a good politician, however scarce they may be.