Did you know that doing what’s right has its own intrinsic value and needs to be done for its own sake, and that not everything has to have a tangible, materialistic value?
Something being “right” is entirely subjective, and personally I don’t think that punishing people without purpose fits that definition.
By your logic, we shouldn’t have art either, because art doesn’t have any real tangible value or purpose aside from what people assign to it
My logic is that if an action needlessly hurts another, it shouldn’t be done. Not sure how art hurts others. The same goes for your space example. And your history example.
Also, you realize that what you did just then was a strawman… right? Because I never made the argument that nothing is worth doing without having some tangible result. I argued that we shouldn’t hurt people for no other reason than spite.
So you agree that you’re just concern trolling
Wtf is concern trolling? Lmao just another weird label to dismiss opinions that differ from your own? Gotcha.
No one even said anything about an eye for an eye. Denying someone vegan meals in prison isn’t ripping their eyes out
…you know that “an eye for an eye” doesn’t mean literally just eyes, right? It means that revenge leads to nothing but further suffering.
but the rest of the world is not
Are you sure about that? Because the rest of the modern world doesn’t have capital punishment. It’s literally only us and some 3rd world countries. Clearly people are moving away from barbarism and draconian, ineffective punishments.