@Intrepid,
Intrepid wrote:
Apparently, that is somewhat true in Texas and probably other places in the U.S.
Up here in civilized Canada we do not have the death penalty for any reason.
A lot of innocent people have remained alive that way.
Therefore, if one is in Canada, and needs to be avenged,
he knows that government will not do the job for him,
so if he wants
to get even, then he needs to do the job himself.
or, if she or he was killed in the crime,
then a son, husband, brother or good friend must avenge her or him,
if he believes that the victim
is worth being avenged and not merely forgotten
In other words, the social contract
is abrogated in Canada (but its OK in Texas)
by reason of the government 's default on that contract,
so the victim or her survivors are left to avenge her, on their own initiave.
The "state of nature" of which John Locke wrote
in his
2nd Treatise on Civil Government is
restored again in Canada.
