This is why I'm for the death penalty.

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Yeah, just as it is hard to explain to kids that kidnapping is wrong, as "kidnappers who take the freedom away from other people will have their own freedom taken away from them by us/the government as we put them in prison for a certain period of time (usually far longer than the time the kidnapper took away the freedom of the kidnapee)"?

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You keep going back to this. How about this angle: "Listen kids, the man is dangerous to children and thus locked up so that he can't continue to do what he did."

Can we just establish that the death penalty is a lot more severe and, most importantly, irreversible than prison?

Some reaction is necessary, obviously. However, the question is death penalty or prison - not some punishment or nothing.

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Yeah, just as it is hard to explain to kids that kidnapping is wrong, as "kidnappers who take the freedom away from other people will have their own freedom taken away from them by us/the government as we put them in prison for a certain period of time (usually far longer than the time the kidnapper took away the freedom of the kidnapee)"?

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You keep going back to this. How about this angle: "Listen kids, the man is dangerous to children and thus locked up so that he can't continue to do what he did."

Can we just establish that the death penalty is a lot more severe and, most importantly, irreversible than prison?

Some reaction is necessary, obviously. However, the question is death penalty or prison - not some punishment or nothing.

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I think that was the first time I responded to the "you cannot tell someone that murder is wrong by killing them" with the "you cannot tell someone that taking peoples freedom away is wrong by taking their freedom away"-argument, so I fail to see how I "keep going back to this".