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>>YeGobl+(OP)
I’m always confused why conservatives tend to support the death penalty. The conservative ethos is to reduce the power of the state to prevent abuse, but giving the state the right to kill a citizen clearly goes against that. How can you mistrust the state in almost every aspect of society, yet trust it to only kill people that “deserve” it?

>>dimal+zl
The conservative ethos is that there are good people and bad people and that good people deserve protection and bad people deserve what is coming to them. You get shunted into the "good people" or "bad people" as a whole. This permits almost unlimited punishment for somebody once they have been categorized as "bad people." This can happen because they committed a crime, even if that crime is wholly unrelated to the situation at hand. It can even happen because they did something like mouth off to a cop. As long as the state violence is happening to the other tribe, the conservative vision of justice is totally okay.