#unless they’re a straight up pedophile#or a rapist 

I suspect you may have missed the whole entire point of having a justice system. No, the police aren’t supposed to kill people for committing crimes that are horrifying enough to disgust you, either.

You support the death penalty for rape? Fine. That happens AFTER the trial, by the state, using laws supported by the people. NOT via the mob justice of state-funded gangsters with sidearms acting on their own discretion.

Honestly this perspective indicates an understanding of justice so warped that I don’t think productive discussion is even possible until you’ve done like 6 months of education on the basic philosophy of a justice system. “Extrajudicial murder of people on the street is okay if they’re Bad Enough People” is a whole fucking red flag parade of a position to hold.

every so often I get notes on my “deciding people are guilty from the get go and then denying them rights based on that decision is Bad” post with “except pedophiles and rapists!” and like, 1) way to miss the entire point, and 2) the recent surge of casting queer people as “child groomers” should make it pretty damn clear that that line of thinking makes it really easy to justify murdering queer people on sight. “but who would do something like that?” I don’t know, maybe the same people who justified lynching black men by accusing them of rape and murder?