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d4rk wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by Pash in Law and violence ≠ state by Pash

My Argument would be

  1. Premise: if mercy is forbearance shown especially to an offender.
  2. Premise: if not rehabilitation, which is the process of re-educating and retraining those who commit crime with the goal of re-integrating offenders back into society.
  3. Premise: if Clemency is an act of mercy and incarceration is an act of rehabilitation.
  4. Premise: if the ratio between Clemency and incarceration in the United States is 0.0023%
  5. Conclusion: Therefore, States in general have an institutional interest in preventing or a bias against mercy.
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Pash OP wrote (edited )

The first three points are just standard/common definitions. You're still making the same logical error that you cite a single example (in point 4) and conclude, therefore, in point 5 that it applies to the whole class.

I'd be sympathetic to your conclusion generally, but that doesn't excuse getting there by blatant illogic.

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d4rk wrote

It may have one illogical mistake but the point still stands,

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