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But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,β€”at least in theory.

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Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

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Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

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I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

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Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Tucker
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Born: April 17, 1854
Died: June 22, 1939 (aged 85)
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