For Capital Punishment

Introduction

The discussion on controversial issues of social and legal experience complicated not only by the elements values and prejudices that regularly come into play there, but, fundamentally, on the pitfalls that lurk in the human spirit and hinder knowledge pragmatic phenomena. The book examines precisely that: the traps present in the debate on the death penalty. For both opponents and advocates for is very important to be clear about what exactly is being discussed and what are the reasons, good or bad, to be wielded in either side. Interspersed different level of analysis, not clearly defined concepts, value judgments are confused with judgments of fact used the words emotionally, all of which becomes an unproductive race and not infrequently absurd (Walter, pp: 1-226).

Death penalty

On the death penalty, much has been written the good, the bad and the ugly. There is hardly adding that discussion to achieve a novel idea, but original. These, perhaps, can help people so as to clarify some misunderstandings, clear some cloud moving frequently in the corridors of the legal and ethical discussions or present a more transparent, new angles and nuances of the problem. This is especially important in discussions of controversial issues, controversial, belligerent where clarity is not the rule, but rather the monsters hiding their dogmatism, allied with the sinister forces of unbridled passion and prejudice (Walter, pp: 1-226).

It is a work of normative ethics, morality, in the sense that immediately takes a position favorable or adverse to the death penalty and defends it, but what it does is to examine the theoretical difficulties that arise when we discuss this issue. It examines issues such as the strength and consistency of the arguments, the theoretical basis of which leave these arguments, the difficulties of providing logical or empirical evidence to back them up (Walter, pp: 1-226).

1. There are ideas which one believes in a pre-reflective, that is, without ever thinking about it. The one believes he or she owes it to the environment, education, culture, or in any case, the priest, the teacher, guru, family or friend. It is difficult, and perhaps even impossible, to resist the seduction of the time, the magnetic force of our contemporaries! The pre-reflective belief is never a problem. The person who has that belief before the problem is. On the other hand, of course if one is before the problem is impossible to envision solutions with respect ...