You could try self-modifying to not hate evil people (“hate the sin not the sinner”). Here’s some emotional arguments that might help (I make no claim as to their logical coherence):
If there was only one person in existence and they were evil, would you want them to be punished or blessed? Who would it serve to punish them?
If you are going to excuse people with mental illness you are going to have to draw some arbitrary line along the gradient from “purposely evil” to “evil because of mental illness.” Also consider the gradient of moral responsibility from child to adult.
If someone who was once evil completely reformed would you still see value in punishing them? Would you wish you hadn’t punished them while they were still evil?
Although someone may have had a guilty mind at the moment of their crime, do they still at the moment of punishment? What if you are increasing the quantum measure of an abstracted isomorphic experience of suffering?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/sc/existential_angst_factory/
You could try self-modifying to not hate evil people (“hate the sin not the sinner”). Here’s some emotional arguments that might help (I make no claim as to their logical coherence):
If there was only one person in existence and they were evil, would you want them to be punished or blessed? Who would it serve to punish them?
If you are going to excuse people with mental illness you are going to have to draw some arbitrary line along the gradient from “purposely evil” to “evil because of mental illness.” Also consider the gradient of moral responsibility from child to adult.
If someone who was once evil completely reformed would you still see value in punishing them? Would you wish you hadn’t punished them while they were still evil?
Although someone may have had a guilty mind at the moment of their crime, do they still at the moment of punishment? What if you are increasing the quantum measure of an abstracted isomorphic experience of suffering?