• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I’m pro-choice, but mostly anti-death penalty, isn’t that a contradiction?

    I don’t really think so. A person’s bodily autonomy and the state’s power to execute citizens should not overlap.

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      13 days ago

      I think it’s not necessarily a contradiction to hold your pro-choice and anti-death penalty stance, but it’s still a contradiction to hold the pro-life and pro-death penalty stance if your reasoning behind the pro-life stance is that all life is sacred.

      I agree that a person’s body autonomy and the state’s power to execute citizens should not overlap, but I still think that giving the “all life is sacred” line to justify pro-life and then being pro-death penalty “because some people deserve to die” amounts to hypocrisy.