People might attend to see that the execution was properly done and nobody did something corrupt like get bribed to not kill them. An attender may want to see the event because they want to have that feeling of “revenge” if this particular person was someone who had wronged them. Other people who come to see may just be curious or are part of the press. Executions can go wrong in that maybe they were innocent of their accused crime but this was revealed later. Nothing could be done because they’re not alive anymore. Jail instead makes this better because they could be released and given a monetary compensation for the time they served. Executions are also known to be cruel to some people. Our character traits and ways we act are some of the things that separate us from someone else in this world. When our identity needs to be proven we can give documents and info maybe only the real person would know. You could get accused of pretending to be someone else if they think that you stole their documents or just somehow knew their info. I think that it would be pretty easy for someone to be mistaken for someone else without further insight into who they are, like checking documents or asking specific questions.
Revenge, Punishment, and Mercy PRJ Theme Statements
Revenge: Revenge is often desired and
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The paper also said that revenge should be left for a time but it must be done immediately because often that is the only opportunity you have, and I somewhat agree but I think that you can also wait a bit for another opportunity that might come up. For example, if someone stole my lunch in the office, but I didn’t think the lunch he had next day was worth to steal, I could wait until I believed that his lunch was worth the risk and the time that I would have to put in to take his
...not fair to execute them. Instead prison and possible rehabilitation are the better choices for criminals in the United States.
While revenge may feel sweet at times, in most cases it is destructive to yourself and those around you. The article “Revenge:Will You Feel Better?” makes one contemplate this, and draws the question “is revenge really worth it?” Well, in the article, Karyn Hall suggests that “Revenge can be a strong urge, but you may not feel better if you act on it.” In fact, in a study performed by Kevin Carlsmith showed that “...the students that got revenge reported feeling worse than those who didn't…” With this, one may see that revenge is pointless, and in most cases leaves you feeling worse than the people you performed it
Many people percieve revenge to be something that falls under justice, as they are driven by emotions, while others consider getting the police involved as serving justice. Moreover, some people find revenge to be pleasing and satisfying, but to argue the point that just because something is more satisfying does not mean it is
Revenge is a fairly strong emotion; it’s wanting to retaliate towards those who wronged you. Revenge is such an uncontrollable way of retaliation that it can result in a destructive outcome or carried out successfully. Although the results may vary, revenge sums up to one thing which is pain of some sort, affecting both parties or just one. Throughout history we see many tales of revenge and redemption. Often revenge does leave the one carrying it out feeling victorious but this can suddenly change as the process of karma generally begins in some tales.
An example of a high profile death row inmate was a man by the name of John Wayne Gracy. Gracy was a Chicago resident who was convicted of murdering and raping thirty-three young boys. The police found twenty-six of his victim’s bodies underneath his house. To any person with a conscious, this man was a demon. Although Gracy was sentenced to death in 1980, he spent over fourteen years on death row. This killer spent every day knowing he was going to die soon, every day he wondered when his execution was going to be. This punishment is much worst than spending time in jail. Should a man who murdered and raped thirty-three boys be allowed to live and die of old age? And have the possibility of going back into society? Gracy is not fit to have that opportunity. Some other notable death row inmates are Ted Bundy, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and Darrel Rich. These three men were beyond rehabilitation and if let go into a prison system would cause
Revenge is best served cold or so says the well-known expression. This idea of revenge that they seek is usually to restore balance and take an “eye for an eye” as the Bible says. Revenge, if by chance everyone were in Plato’s perfect utopia, would be in a perfect form, where justice and revenge would be one, and the coined phrase “eye for an eye” would be taken literally. By taking an eye for and eye, and punishing those who did wrong equally as they did wrong, there is justice. However, this revenge sometimes goes too far and is consequently not justice.
We kill people to show them killing is wrong. The death penalty does not punish people for killing but for murdering someone. Murder is "the unlawful, malicious, or permitted killing of one human being by another" (Carmical 1). The slogan should be ?We execute people to show people that murder is wrong.? The death penalty is racist, it punishes the poor, it causes the innocent to die, it is not a deterrent against violent crime, and it is cruel and unusual punishment. The death penalty is wrong and it should be abolished.
Revenge is such an enormous part of a being human. It is something that no matter how much you try to avoid part of you will persistently lust for it. When you are hurt in any way your natural instinct will always tell you to make the one who hurt you feel just as bad if not worse as how you felt. It is such a natural and powerful feeling, that when revenge is incorporated into a story it makes it so much stronger. Revenge will make you see so many more sides of characters and make them seem much more complex. Revenge can give fictional characters a more human quality. That is why so many writers use it as their theme.
People who commit such crimes often are aware of what they are doing, and can often have skill at covering up their actions. This can make it hard for jury’s to determine who is guilty for a crime and who is innocent. Mistakes can be made, and innocent people could be charged guilty. “Since the reinstatement of the modern death penalty, 87 people have been freed from death row because they were later proven innocent. That is a demonstrated error rate of 1 innocent person for every 7 persons executed” (Top 10 Pros and Cons). Being accused for a crime that someone else committed and serving punishment for it would be not only unfair but unjust. It is impossible to get back the time that one would have spent sitting in a prison cell, away from their loved ones, while receiving punishment for something that they didn’t do. What is even more impossible though is being sentenced to death for the actions of someone else and then being brought back to life. Many people will argue that 1 in 7 people being falsely accused is not a significant enough number to prove that the system is flawed, but that is a 14% chance that someone innocent could be killed. There is no reason to even risk 14% of people lives when the risk could be completely
It is the idea of revenge that sends a cool shiver down the spines of justly men when they begin to question as to why someone would stoop to such a level. But yet it is still more than an idea for revenge has been carried out in various forms along all the eras of history side-by-side of that of novels and tragedies. Even so, revenge is still a dark scheme; an evil plague of the mind per se. It is such a plague that will turn even the greatest persons of the brightest, optimistically capable of minds into lowly, as well as lonely, individuals. Thus, revenge will, and can, only end in despair and agony of the mind. Therefore, provided that all that has been said is true, revenge would appear quite unseemly to the observant onlooker. However, taking an in-depth insight into revenge you can uncover quite a compelling feature, which is best summed up into one word. Pride. Pride is the one clear motivational proprietor needed to push a protagonist into the downward spiral of personal vendetta. Without pride, revenge is no more than a mindless massacre of flesh and bone ending in the obliteration of any hope for reconciliation.
ABSTRACT: Both utilitarians and the deontologists are of the opinion that punishment is justifiable, but according to the utilitarian moral thinkers, punishment can be justified solely by its consequences, while the deontologists believe that punishment is justifiable purely on retributive ground. D. D. Raphael is found to reconcile both views. According to him, a punishment is justified when it is both useful and deserved. Maclagan, on the other hand, denies it to be justifiable in the sense that it is not right to punish an offender. I claim that punishment is not justifiable but not in the sense in which it is claimed by Maclagan. The aim of this paper is to prove the absurdity of the enquiry as to whether punishment can be justified. Difference results from differing interpretations of the term 'justification.' In its traditional meaning, justification can hardly be distinguished from evaluation. In this sense, to justify an act is to say that it is good or right. I differ from the traditional use and insist that no act or conduct can be justified. Infliction of punishment is a human conduct and as such it is absurd to ask for its justification. I hold the view that to justify is to give reason, and it is only a statement or an assertion behind which we can put forth reason. Infliction of pain is an act behind which the agent may have purpose or intention but not reason. So, it is not punishment, but rather statements concerning punishment that we can justify.
“Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves” (Phaedrus). This quote was said by a Roman fabulist and it depicts the entire concept of revenge in Hamlet. The nature of revenge causes someone to act upon anger rather than reason. Hamlet takes place in Denmark and is about Hamlet’s uncle who kills his dad to gain power of Denmark. After the killing, Hamlet seeks revenge on his uncle. In the play, there are several characters wanting vengeance like that of Hamlet. Throughout the play, Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras all had a tragic death of a family member which caused their decision for revenge. Consequentially, these revenges caused the demise of two characters and the rise of power of another. The retaliation shown by the Prince of Denmark, as well as Laertes led to the downfall of their government.
executed is a terrifying and gruesome ordeal for everyone. often also overlooked is the extreme mental torture that the person suffers leading up to the execution, especially if they are innocent. I am not a snob. How would you feel if you knew you were going to die? tomorrow morning at 8 a.m.
Taking revenge is a bitter sweet thing. I have always thought that people should always get what they desire, whether it be a grade, a smile and hug or in some cases, revenge. When I was in high school there seemed to be someone always trying to get me in trouble, they would say things that wouldn’t be true or do things to make me look bad. The fact that I never seemed to do anything to them would make me mad and wonder what I could do to get them back. Revenge would usually come in some sort of verbal put down or I would try to physically hurt them. It always seemed when I would get the revenge right away I would feel really good but as I thought about what I did, and what they did to me I would always feel guilty or wish I would have never done anything to them in return.
People can be motivated to take revenge on others for various reasons. While these reasons may be considered as very serious or rather trivial, they are all motives for revenge. Revenge occurs when a person has been offended or angered by an individual and in result they have the desire to pay them back. People’s opinions on revenge differ from each other, some may believe it is justified and some don’t. Mahatma Ghandi believed that revenge is not the answer and he stated that “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. This quote portrays the opinion that if everyone gets even then there will be no one else; if we all take an eye for an eye everyone would be blind. Revenge can be learnt through real life experiences as well as fiction and can be shown as justice or unacceptable. It becomes difficult to determine when revenge can be justified but is revenge always worth it?