Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 325 Violence
After doing all this, Jack slowly calmed down.

He looked at the blood on his fist, then looked at the two people on the ground who had been shot dead by him, and suddenly an indescribable panic surged in his heart.

That was the panic after murder, a chill spreading from the depths of the soul.

As long as a person kills someone, he will feel a sense of grief for the loss of the rabbit.

"I thought you would stop me." Jack's voice was bitter.

"Why should I stop you!" Shi Fei said.

"Because I killed someone, and killing is bad!" Jack shook his head, with a tremor in his voice.

He used to be a firefighter, risking his life to save others from fire. But now, he has become a murderer. This change of identity makes him feel a little confused.

This confusion came from the fact that when he killed people, he only felt pleasure!

The feeling of losing and then getting it back, and then beating someone to death, is so damn refreshing!

"Who told you that killing is bad?" Shi Fei said.

Isn't killing bad?

Killing good people is not good, but killing bad people and garbage is certainly a good thing.

Jack whispered to himself, "We are all God's people. We have no right to take the lives of others."

In the country where Goff is located, almost everyone believes in God or other religions. In essence, this country can be regarded as a religious country. Even when the president takes the oath of office, he has to place his hand on the Bible.

What about ordinary people?

Jack used to be a firefighter, had a good family, and was naturally a devout believer.

Shi Fei couldn't help but laugh: "Even if others are garbage and hinder social stability and development?"

Jack nodded, his tone firm: "Yes."

"Even if someone has hurt you? Ever wanted to kill you?" Shi Fei asked again, with a hint of temptation in his tone.

Jack remained firm and said, "Yes."

In his past cognition, life is sacred and equal, and no one has the right to deprive others of their lives. The death penalty is "legalized murder" and deprives sinners of the opportunity to repent!
Especially once a wrongful conviction is made, life cannot be saved. Since the popularization of DNA technology, many cases in Goff City have been found to be wrongful convictions through reports.

This made Jack more convinced that no one had the right to take another person's life.

What if I misunderstood others?

"Then does that mean there is no cost for criminals? Does killing people mean there is no cost?" Shi Fei's voice was filled with a hint of sarcasm:
"Isn't this contradictory? Others can kill you, but you can't kill others? What's the logic behind this? All lives are equal, but murderers seem to be...a cut above the rest!"

If you can kill someone without paying with your life, then aren’t you a celestial dragon?
Jack shook his head and said, "Murderers are sinners and will not be forgiven by God. Others can be sinners, but we cannot be sinners." Shi Fei couldn't help laughing, thinking that Jack's logic was very strange.

In fact, the public opinion in the whole city of Goff is that the death penalty is wrong and killing is wrong. The reasons for the formation of this concept are very complicated, including historical reasons, religious reasons, and capital reasons.

Historically, ancient European kings could execute people at will, but the Nazis' abuse of the death penalty during World War II, such as trials in concentration camps, brought decades of fear, prompting the abolition of the death penalty to be tied to democratization after the war.

Therefore, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights listed the right to life as an "inalienable right", and even criminals enjoy basic dignity.

The right to life is a "natural right" that cannot be lost due to personal crimes. Even if a murderer deprives others of their lives, society cannot retaliate in the same way, otherwise it would be tantamount to recognizing the legitimacy of "fighting violence with violence" and lead to moral decline.

This idea led to the abolition of the death penalty across Europe in 1977.

The country where Goff City is located is naturally also influenced by this concept.

After all, it was once a beacon of democracy, though now that beacon is fading.

Many bloody and brutal things have happened in this sinful land. For example, the death penalty in the South was deeply tied to racial discrimination in the past, and black people were more likely to be sentenced to death.

But this country has its own national conditions. Some states have abolished the death penalty, including the city of Goff, while some states still have the death penalty.

Secondly, in religion, the core of Christianity is that "sinners can be redeemed through repentance." The death penalty deprives criminals of the opportunity to repent and violates the right to redemption granted by God.

Human beings are created in the image of God. The right to life belongs only to God and secular governments have no right to deprive it.

Finally, it is the capital. As we all know, capital is in pursuit of high profits. When the profit exceeds 200%, the capitalists will take risks and trample on all laws, even at the risk of being beheaded.

Since the profits are so high but there are still risks, why not control the risks and abolish the death penalty?
After making huge profits, they can also guide public opinion and attribute crimes to individual moral defects and non-structural injustice. Abolishing the death penalty can shape the image of a "humane country" and ease people's anger over the gap between the rich and the poor and racial discrimination.

After the abolition of the death penalty, capitalists can run lawless in a free country because they can grab more profits without worrying about the threat of the death penalty.

In general, the ultimate core of the abolition of the death penalty in the West is the embodiment of a "risk-averse society."

There is an extreme distrust of state power, and one would rather release someone by mistake than kill someone by mistake.

To absolutize the value of individual life and transcend the need for collective justice.

In postmodern ethics, evil is attributed to "social structural pathology" rather than personal choice. In short, it's not me who is wrong, but the whole world.

From this core, it can be seen that the essence of abolishing the death penalty is to pursue the selfish value of individual life! They only care about themselves and not others!
Shi Fei didn't know all this. Although he also believed that many crimes were the result of structural errors in society, people always had to pay a price for doing wrong things.

Killing someone means paying with your life, this is a simple emotion that has existed for thousands of years!
He didn't know the reason behind Jack's aversion to killing, but he knew the contradiction of abolishing the death penalty. He said to Jack, "Your city promotes the supremacy of human rights, and criminals can also enjoy human rights. Then where are the human rights of the dead, the people killed by murderers?"

If human rights are very high, then where are the human rights of the dead?
Who will fight for their fairness and justice?
You know, when people die, everything is gone.

Jack was silent. He had the same question. What about the victims, like his fellow firefighters, who were all dead? Where was their justice? Where was the fairness?
They saved others, but they themselves slowly died. Who will protect their right to life, their human rights, and their equality?

Did they all die in vain?
(End of this chapter)