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RE: SLC-S29/W1-“Thinking and Ideas!| If You Were in Charge!”

in Steem4Nigeria23 days ago

I understand that you want to protect women and girls in your country at all costs. And you're right: no one should be afraid to go out on the streets at night!

But by calling for the death penalty for violent offenders, you are putting yourself on the same moral level as them. You want to take a life. There are no good or bad, reprehensible or acceptable reasons for this.

Do you know of any society in which the death penalty effectively prevents crime...?

The approach must be society-wide; the status of women, their visibility and self-image must be built up and established. Then there will still be individual cases that cannot actually be prevented. But people will no longer look away, judges will no longer blame the victim.