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    $\begingroup$ I'm pretty sure most people don't think rapists and murders should be "let go so they can do it again". There are steps between killing and just letting people go you know. $\endgroup$
    – dsollen
    Commented Nov 23, 2022 at 19:32
  • $\begingroup$ There's a huge gap between how our society handles rapists and how they handle murders. Putting them in the same sentence as if a thought process could apply to both of them equally is poor reasoning. Men often get away with rape due to victim blaming. They SOMETIMES get away with murder by doing so. If there isn't enough room in the jails, they will let rapists out before non-violent drug offenders, but we keep the murderers locked up as a high priority. $\endgroup$
    – Robert Rapplean
    Commented Nov 23, 2022 at 20:30
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    $\begingroup$ OP's society appears to be closer to example #3 (only without any religious justification), so the question is "can there be a functional society that consists of type 3 people"? $\endgroup$
    – Alexander
    Commented Nov 23, 2022 at 23:32
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    $\begingroup$ This answer seems more focused on making a point about the current social and political situation of the United States than this question. While it's a relevant example, I'd advise being more careful in the future. We're not here to debate about politics in a country many of us don't even live in. The semantics of the word "murder" to begin with is a good catch, though. I've made a clarification to my original question; it is pertaining to indiscriminate killing that is seen as socially acceptable more than what is technically murder, as Alexander suggested in their reply. $\endgroup$
    – INPU
    Commented Nov 24, 2022 at 1:27
  • $\begingroup$ @dsollen, unless you missed it by the other stances listed, I was purposely taking the extremes of each stance. Just to be clear: all 4 are extremes. $\endgroup$
    – ShadoCat
    Commented Nov 28, 2022 at 21:11