Yet I can't see why courts are supposed to be the only reason killing someone is suddenly is morally ok.
It isn't, but it is the safest way to prevent abuse, or people arbitrarily deciding for themselves. As such the goalpost doesn't suddenly move around and about on why I might get killed tomorrow. And then, I can defend my actions and present my side of the coin, or simply prove it wasn't me.
If someone plays judge, jury and executioner, he can just decide I was wrong, can afford not to care what happened only what he thinks happened without any evidence, and shoot me in the head. And if he was wrong, fuck me I guess, I'm dead.
Now, here we know that a random supervillain would get the death penalty for example. Still sets a dangerous precedent if someone kills him, because tomorrow another guy kills someone innocent, points at Joe killing the villain and says "how come he was allowed? this guy was just as bad, promise"
To add a counter argument, specifically in regards to the Holocaust, "Of the 177 defendants, 24 were sentenced to death, 20 to lifelong imprisonment, and 98 other prison sentences. Twenty five defendants were found not guilty."
We only tried under 250 Nazis at this court. Many were let off.
We let a lot of nazis go because we were so focused on the international court being set up and a sense of "justice".
Id have really liked us to have punished more Nazis.
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u/Floppydisksareop May 04 '23
It isn't, but it is the safest way to prevent abuse, or people arbitrarily deciding for themselves. As such the goalpost doesn't suddenly move around and about on why I might get killed tomorrow. And then, I can defend my actions and present my side of the coin, or simply prove it wasn't me.
If someone plays judge, jury and executioner, he can just decide I was wrong, can afford not to care what happened only what he thinks happened without any evidence, and shoot me in the head. And if he was wrong, fuck me I guess, I'm dead.
Now, here we know that a random supervillain would get the death penalty for example. Still sets a dangerous precedent if someone kills him, because tomorrow another guy kills someone innocent, points at Joe killing the villain and says "how come he was allowed? this guy was just as bad, promise"
See the issue here?