in light of law interview on saturday, i shall have a special today.

one fine day i sat thinking, thinking again.
I was wondering what questions might be thrown at me during interview. Reflecting on
"crime and punishment" learnt in J1, one classic question might be

"do you think the death penalty is justified?"

to which, i have 2 things to say.

Firstly, i think that the death penalty is indeed of the right magnitude.
Its basic exchange: if you take something, you return.
an eye for an eye, a life for another.

if one feels that such exchange is unreasonable, he should've negotiated.
One concern may be that the killing was not done intentionally, was accidental etc.
That i feel, is a concern well addressed by the current legal system where different classes of murder, manslaughter are cleanly categorised to "protect" the offenders.

another concern may be "why can't we offer the offender a second chance, i mean, what if he realised his mistake and repented?"

To which i can only say true repentence should not give birth to pleading of second chance, but rather a wholehearted surrender for punishment. Think along with me:
if one should say "oh im sorry, i realised my mistake, please give me another chance" what is he targeting for? Self preservation of course.
On the other hand, if one has truly comprehended his mistake, he will realise that his punishment is well deserved and will silently partake.

So, is giving of second chance a matter worth considering? i fear not.

lastly, we know that the harshness of death sentence is the very thing which passively guards the lives of people. should its severity be defiled, it will lose the level of deterrence it currently imposes.

as a result, one can only expect to see more lives taken.