re: The Death Penalty

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Previously (and still in much of the world), the penalty for that would be to watch your baby slowly but surely starve to death and thus putting the parent into even larger turmoil.

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I've always had this paradox that I ask people: If you had to choose between watching your five year old die or your wife having a miscarriage, and one had to go, which would you choose?

It seems obvious to me, but apparently there are ways to wiggle out of the question. Just a matter of value, I suppose.