Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Not long ago, "murderers and child rapists should have to live with what they've done" was considered a perfectly reasonable defense of an abolitionist position on the death penalty. It's interesting to notice the new pushback against "maximum punishment" for even the worst crime https://twitter.com/Vanessa_ABee/status/1218019316454563840 …

I don't have a firm personal position on the death penalty, but I suspect that the recent cultural shift has been toward perceiving *all* crime as a demonstration of "lack of privilege" or systemic injustice, and that's just clearly not always the case

Honestly... I don't know if there are great social benefits to societal rage, but I honestly can't muster a lot of concern about the folks who want to see killers who kill for sexual gratification or money punished in the worst way

we have the death penalty in SG I'm... not a fan I have friends who are strongly against it and I respect that I don't like how secretive the State is about it but the worst thing to me is how medievally *gleeful* some people are about using it:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1015858758453420032 …