Criminal Laws

Ok... This topic is very, very hard to discuss, specially if you have to write an opinion in less than an hour and a half. Lets see... I don't really have a strong possition about capital law, on one hand there is the most popular opinion (the "ilustrated and civilized" one), that you commonly appeal to; the one that says that nobody has the right to decide if an other human being should live or die, that every one has the right to rehabilitate and that to sentence someone to deth is against the universal values or human rights.

But on the other hand, if you imagine that some day, somebody could take someone you love from you for any reason, or destroy the lifes of many people commiting hideus acts that can't be justified by anyone... the first argument starts to sound a little empty. I don't think that capital laws could reduce criminality here or any where alse: they haven't in the past and they won't do it now, but I wonder: should society spend resources that could go to health, education and social programs in mantaining people that have caused nothing more than damage and pain to others? But again, I'am thinking in extreme cases of murderers, violators and dictators; I don't think that capital law is a solution to anything, I just think that in very specific cases it could do less damage than a life sentence.

I think that if criminality rates are going up it's because of the way of life we are forced to live, where the mayority of people get excluded from the "good life" and then get punished for it, and if we want to stop that rates continue to rise we should think about how to eliminate this problem from it's roots, and not to think that prision is an answer to anything. I have to accept that I have never been a "victim of crime", not in a direct way... a couple of times my cellphone has being stoled, but I didn't realise so it wasn't traumatic. Maybe if that was different my opinion would be to...