While I find your analysis mostly correct, I’d be strongly against weakening norms against killing people through legal institutions.
I believe this would increase the value of lawfare, as instead of lengthy drawn out jail time where an enemy could pull a reversal they are simply dead.
This would worry me at the political, ideological and private levels
I would only use the death penalty where we’re close to certain X actually committed the crime. That’s fairly common for shoplifting and murder, but unfortunately far less common in rape (unless it’s e.g. on a street with CCTV cameras). I guess for probable rape I probably wouldn’t impose the death penalty and hope that they’ll get caught for a violent crimes later.
Just notice that systems are not stable, even if you got to decide all policy in a given point in time, policy will naturally warp and people will abuse it.
If killing people, quickly etc was normal, I assume regimes would use this to stop people from unseating them. (Trump may have been killed, see the attempts to paint him as a rapist)
While I find your analysis mostly correct, I’d be strongly against weakening norms against killing people through legal institutions.
I believe this would increase the value of lawfare, as instead of lengthy drawn out jail time where an enemy could pull a reversal they are simply dead.
This would worry me at the political, ideological and private levels
I think lawfare tends to involve civil not criminal cases?
Regardless, it doesn’t have to.
What’s a story you can suggest where this occurs? Not one from a novel, but one you can see happening?
Hitler
Trump—if killing people on short time lines was accepted...
Girl owes guy money, gets him killed for rape. (Her friends join in)
People who were canceled?
I could see nasty business issues, mafias using this etc—but that sounds like a novel so we’ll leave it aside
I would only use the death penalty where we’re close to certain X actually committed the crime. That’s fairly common for shoplifting and murder, but unfortunately far less common in rape (unless it’s e.g. on a street with CCTV cameras). I guess for probable rape I probably wouldn’t impose the death penalty and hope that they’ll get caught for a violent crimes later.
Just notice that systems are not stable, even if you got to decide all policy in a given point in time, policy will naturally warp and people will abuse it.
If killing people, quickly etc was normal, I assume regimes would use this to stop people from unseating them. (Trump may have been killed, see the attempts to paint him as a rapist)