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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
Not sure which way you're leaning with that. I see a way to read it that makes sense, but I also sense, knowing you, that you mean it in an altogether different manner.
Honestly, there are strong valid critiques of the aptness of the analogy whichever way you intend it.
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The idea of setting up a secondary justice system for rapists given that current one is woefully ineffective is nice in theory, but the potential of that particular system's misuse makes it too dangerous to implement.
One of the main critiques of capital punishment for death penalty opponents is that if one innocent person is wrongly executed, it is an irresponsible and unnecessary form of punishment precisely because it can lead to the death of an innocent.
It's the transitive theory in action, and denying the overlap is moral relativism.