And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

  • -- Benjamin Tucker 本杰明塔克

而死刑,无论多么无效,无论出于何种无知,至少在理论上,都是一种严格的防卫行为。

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I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

我很早就知道了生命的痛苦和危险,知道了来世,知道了在地狱里等待罪恶之子的外部惩罚。

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

报复与自然和本能有关,而与法律无关。根据定义,法律不能遵循与自然相同的规则。