Maria Roque was just 34 years old when she was shot and killedon the steps outside her West Side Chicago home, in front of her 8-year-old daughter.

Her daughter and her 14-year-old son both witnessed Roque take her last breath.

In the weeks before she was killed, Roque repeatedly took all steps domestic violence victims are told to take. She got a protection order against her former boyfriend, Kenneth Brown. She also repeatedly went to the Chicago Police Department for help. She filed one police report after another and never gave up.

But the system failed her.

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    Worthless system. After the initial threats and subsequent violence that guy should have been on death row. Idk why we cut people so much slack. Seriously.

    • “Oh golly gee y’all, we will try to do better in the future.”

      -Local Police Chief

      Meanwhile this woman is dead because of their lack of empathy, education, and basic human dignity. But they’ll sleep well every night for the rest of their lives while her children never will again.

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          “They” were created to defend rich people, ie: slave owners, and the rabble aren’t part of that demographic.

        • @SupraMario
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          I don’t know why you all still hold this, but the police have no obligation to protect and serve.

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            In a functional society they would, instead we have low IQ ex military / military rejects in acting they’re power fantasies for the corporate overlord’s

      • @Zanudous
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        They empathize alright with their domestic abusers brethren

      • @yeahiknow3
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        Evil people sure are glad they have you to stand up for them.

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          “Evil” isn’t real, it’s a word we made up to describe shitty people. Beyond that, until we humans are perfect and never make mistakes, the death penalty is never going to be the acceptable answer. Too many innocent people end up killed by it.

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            Or the fact that it does nothing to address the causes of crimes that don’t stem from a “risk-reward” assessment and just lets whoever’s left behind have some false sense of having done something

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            What’s extra comical about this claim is that if nihilism were true, as you claim, then a fortiori the death penalty would be completely permissible.

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                The only person using rhetoric here is you. There are morally depraved people out there whom we colloquially refer to as “evil.” I don’t know why you insist on having a semantic argument. If “[moral depravity] does not exist,” as my interlocutor claims, then nihilism would indeed be true.

                I would also like to point out that the ethical arguments against the death penalty in the scholarly literature are very weak and it remains an open question whether the death penalty is advisable on practical grounds. Morally it’s unlikely that any good argument exists to make it impermissible to kill “evil” people. You can check out the latest edition of any textbook on ethics, such as Living Ethics by Schaffer Landau, which syllogizes a variety of arguments on this topic.

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                    Let me again recommended this textbook on Ethics: https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/living-ethics-9780197608876

                    The death penalty is chapter 20.

                    Also,

                    1. “Death” isn’t (or should not be) a punishment. We don’t “punish” rabid dogs when we euthanize them. Sometimes the alternative is simply worse.
                    2. Earlier you said that “evil cannot be quantified” and therefore doesn’t exist. However, quantifiability is not an ontological prerequisite. If it were, then almost nothing would exist, including you and me.
                    3. You don’t need to resort to straw men. Respond to my arguments instead of arguing with yourself.
                    4. Moral claims wouldn’t be “arbitrary” unless nihilism is true, which you’ve denied.