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Someone asked me a question recently, and it caused me to think a lot. So, in typical fashion, I am posting the answers I have found here....
The question: "What do you think makes someone deserving of death? And what gives you the right to be the one who kills another?"
The answer: I believe that if someone does more bad then good, then they deserve to die.
A person who is a chronic threat to the basic mechanics of society must be removed from the population in order to provide for the safety and security of the people. When I look at death as a punishment, I don't look at the past. Vengeance is a child-like concept; killing one person for killing another just gives you two dead people. One of those people had a chance to change.
Sometimes killing such an individual is the only way to accomplish this. If someone does more bad than good, presuming it can be measured relative to the worth of a human life, then the person should simply have a debt of humanity that needs to be repaid.
I would deliver death for someone who has done more harm than they can ever reasonably be expected to do good during their life expectancy. One life lost is simple to replace; save one life for free.
With this standard of doing more good than harm in an entire projected lifetime, there would also be the question of recidivism (repeat offenses, for clarity's sake) added in.
In regards to what makes me qualified to deliver death? The answer is far simpler.... Few people have the lack of empathy or conscience to actually take a life. It is not uncommon for a person to become nauseated or even vomit after killing for the first time. Many who have taken lives have nightmares, flashbacks, or even PTSD following the act.
Even fewer have the skills necessary to carry out such a sentence effectively. Certainly, many people are capable of killing another human. But the methods used are clumsy, there is no planning or forethought, and the chance of being caught is virtually guaranteed.
I am uniquely qualified in the respect that I lack even the most basic compassion or kindness for they who would violate another's rights. Through my time in the military and "other professions" which shall not be named here, I have learned a multitude of ways to dispatch people with a minimum of outside involvement.
So, to put it bluntly? I am the best qualified through experience.
That is all I have to say regarding my answer. I feel like I just did someone's homework and my memories are creeping back in to my head. Good night.
Ego sum dominor. Ego sum invictus. Ego sum Lupus.
