The main thing a death penalty does is establish that there is an ultimate price.
Having an ultimate punishment affects society on a deep instinctual level. Communities know there is a beast and if they don't get their act together they'll wake it. Having a death penalty is peace through strength.
Lesser people and children naturally push the limits just to find out where the limits are; they can't just know through reason like normal civilized adults. That's why the real problem we're facing is the lack of corporal but really lack of any punishment in schools and by parents.
A stitch in time is an elementary school teacher bitch slapping the worst troublemaker in the class or dragging them out by their hair. Kids shouldn't be afraid of their teachers, but they should fear their wrath.
God needs to be more liberal (heh) with his lightning bolts every now and then. Just go full Zeus and zap every single sinner in Chicago every ten minutes or something. Not even fatal bolts, we can make it a tourist attraction to have strippers just outside the city limit, you cross a line, look at them, then get a 60-volt zap to one eye, six times per hour, like clockwork.
It would reduce crime rates to near zero across the entire world. It'd be great.
The main thing a death penalty does is establish that there is an ultimate price.
Having an ultimate punishment affects society on a deep instinctual level. Communities know there is a beast and if they don't get their act together they'll wake it. Having a death penalty is peace through strength.
Lesser people and children naturally push the limits just to find out where the limits are; they can't just know through reason like normal civilized adults. That's why the real problem we're facing is the lack of corporal but really lack of any punishment in schools and by parents.
A stitch in time is an elementary school teacher bitch slapping the worst troublemaker in the class or dragging them out by their hair. Kids shouldn't be afraid of their teachers, but they should fear their wrath.
this is pretty much it.
i'm not afraid of God. i think He is my friend and wants the best for me. but, i fear His wrath.
today, people who do not know God know no wrath to fear either.
God needs to be more liberal (heh) with his lightning bolts every now and then. Just go full Zeus and zap every single sinner in Chicago every ten minutes or something. Not even fatal bolts, we can make it a tourist attraction to have strippers just outside the city limit, you cross a line, look at them, then get a 60-volt zap to one eye, six times per hour, like clockwork.
It would reduce crime rates to near zero across the entire world. It'd be great.