d4rk wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Pash in Law and violence ≠ state by Pash
My Argument would be
- Premise: if mercy is forbearance shown especially to an offender.
- 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.
- Premise: if Clemency is an act of mercy and incarceration is an act of rehabilitation.
- Premise: if the ratio between Clemency and incarceration in the United States is 0.0023%
- Conclusion: Therefore, States in general have an institutional interest in preventing or a bias against mercy.
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.
d4rk wrote
It may have one illogical mistake but the point still stands,
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