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Capital Punishment

An argument exists over whether or not capital punishment is right. This argument has been commented on and debated by many. Those of Islamic faith believe in the law of the Koran, which basically states and eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth. So if you steal something, your will lose your hands as punishment and, thereby, your ability to steal. Capital punishment involved an inherent dilemma. What can be done with a murderer or a person who commits such a crime as to deserve death? Is there any situation where death is useful for society and for the individual who is killed?

This paper shall investigate whether or not capital punishment is right from three moral/philosophical viewpoints. The first is egoism, which posits the belief that everyone is motivated to act in their own self-interest. The second is utilitarianism, which says that the usefulness of an action is what determines its degree of morality. The third is Kantianism which adopts the viewpoint that the world is experienced through the senses. However, reality is determined by forms and categories which are a priori, meaning determined outside of the senses.

From the egoism perspective, capital punishment may be viewed in a variety of ways. Egoism states that all individual conduct has a motivation. This primary motivation is self-interest. The individual who commits the crime does so out of self-interest, even if it merits capital punishment. Society must deal with crimes deserving capital punishment by any means possible. The best way, according to egoism, is self-interest.

Self-interest can be defined for society as the interest of the society as the self. Is the person who committed the crime to be kept alive? This person committed a crime in his self-interest. This interest was not shared by everyone in society. So society has to do something in its own self-interest. It has to kill him to eliminate the person who has placed individual s...

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