Comparing The Death Penalty And Moral Responsibility

Determinism and Moral Responsibility Does it make sense to impose the death penalty? Reinstatement of the death penalty is a famous topic that has been argued across nations for many years. There is no right or wrong decision of whether or not to reinstate the death penalty because there are strong beliefs and opinions supporting either side. Even though there are strong beliefs and opinions supporting both sides, I still believe that death penalty should be imposed. The reason is that I believe everybody is responsible for their own actions and the person that committed a crime must be severely punished. I am also a believer of the current justice system. When our justice system found a person is guilty, there will be good amounts …show more content…
Of course, in Moral Responsibility, the person should get praise or reward when the person did something good and the person should get blame or punishment when the person did something bad or omission of doing something good (“Moral Responsibility”). For instance, a person did not serve his or her Moral Responsibility if the person runs away instead of trying to save a child inside the burning car or calling the police for help after witnessing a huge car accident. Omission of saving the child from harm and calling the police for help is the person Moral Responsibility even though the person is not legally responsible in doing so. The person is not legally responsible since the person would not be liable in our court system for not helping. Undoubtedly, the belief of Moral Responsibility would support the reinstatement of death penalty because the death penalty would be a deserving punishment in connection to his or her wrongdoing since a life was lost due to his or her wrongdoing. In contrast, Determinism is the “philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition …show more content…
Determinist believes that human cognition and behavior, decision, and action are determined by outside factors. However, I believe that these outside factors can be easily influenced. As a result, it will change human behavior, decision, and action. I believe imposing the death penalty can indeed affect these external factors. For example, one of these external factors is past and present experiences or Causal Determinism. If the death penalty is imposed in the past and the present, then the possibility of people committing murder would likely to decrease. The reason is that based on the person’s past and present experiences, the death penalty exists and would understand that there are punishments for his or her action. Since the past and present experience has been influenced, his or her decision of committing a murder would likely to change. Another external factor is genetic endowment or Biological Determinism. If the death penalty is imposed, people that got caught committing murder would be punished by the death penalty. If the people that got caught are punished by the death penalty, the number of people with such genetic endowment of committing murder would be lowered. Therefore, since people with such genetic endowment are lowered,