Brutha, I think you may well have hit the nail on the head with my defense.
I abhor the death penalty and was struggling to defend it. Therefore, maybe unconsciously I couldn't countenance a moral argument and defaulted to a financial one, that I agree, is absurd.
As I said, the post was really about values and I used the death penalty as something that has a tendency to polarize people.
So maybe I failed in my attempt to deliver a coherent argument? Or maybe it just depends on the person reading it.
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