On capital punishment, I’d like to offer 3 perspectives:
1. ‘Execute’ the creation of unexcellent human beings at the societal level. 🧬⛓️💥⚙️
Humanity should become genuinely serious about cultivating high-quality human beings through a comprehensive system—from overseeing reproduction and childbirth to the lifelong formation and cultivation of character. Parents who carelessly bring children into the world only for them to become dysfunctional members of society should face serious accountability. 🚼💥🚫
If, despite such a robust system, individuals still emerge with a readiness to inflict harm upon others, they should first be studied 🔬 to uncover the root causes behind their development 🧯. This would allow society to address those causes systematically while removing such individuals from society to prevent further danger. ⛑️
In short: design a cultural system of procreation and human development that strives exclusively toward excellence. Rather than rushing to execute offenders, treat them as invaluable case studies to prevent the emergence of unexcellence with genuine seriousness.
2. Capital punishment may itself be an act of mercy through ending the existence of unexcellence. 🎁🫥🌫️
Beyond protecting society by removing those who are inclined to harm others, capital punishment may also be viewed as an act of mercy—or even the greatest blessing a profoundly unexcellent person could ever receive 💝, despite being incapable of recognizing it.
By ending the existence of a self whose very structure tends to generate harm toward both oneself and others, while lacking the enduring drive to elevate itself, the state of unexcellence itself comes to an end—at least within the realm of existence that can presently be known and experienced by that individual. 👾🧟
This is yet another reason why the response, “Just execute them,” may be far too simplistic.
3. Capital punishment as a motivational force for an exceptionally excellent serial killer in Dexter. 💉💀🏆
My favorite series, Dexter, illustrates the motivational power that capital punishment can exert on an extraordinarily capable and methodical serial killer.
Dexter is fully aware of his urge to kill 🗡️🩸—a compulsion born from the traumatic murder of someone close to him, which profoundly shaped his identity from childhood. He grows into adulthood deliberately mastering every aspect of becoming a serial killer with excellence: from selecting victims who, in his view, deserve it, to executing every step with remarkable precision and discipline.
Why does Dexter become such an exceptionally “excellent” serial killer? 🪬🔮 Because his identity is concoded through the interplay between severe childhood trauma under the care of his biological parent and the life capital subsequently provided by his adoptive father.
In an individual endowed with excellence ⭐️, whose exceptionally rare expertise 🧠 is complemented by charisma arising from profound self-awareness and exceptional social intelligence 🪞, darkness itself can become an element that makes such a person even more compelling. That is precisely why I find the role of capital punishment in Dexter so fascinating, even when applied to a character who is unquestionably a serial killer, yet whose identity has nonetheless been shaped into one of remarkable excellence through the convergence of numerous concoding elements.
❣️ Ultimately, I wish to emphasize one principle above all: whatever one chooses to become, strive to become excellent in every possible dimension. Anything less seems, tragically, almost unworthy of existence. The design and governance of society—from the creation of human life to the termination of it—should therefore be conceived as one coherent system guided by this principle from beginning to end.
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