If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
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Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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