Comment & Debate
Margaret Thatcher (1984). – I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live.[1]
J.J. Rousseau’s The Social Contract (1762) – Again, every rogue who criminously attacks social rights becomes, by his wrong, a rebel and a traitor to his fatherland. By contravening its laws, he ceases to be one of its citizens: he even wages war against it. In such circumstances, the State and he cannot both be saved: one or the other must perish. In killing the criminal, we destroy not so much a citizen as an enemy. The trial and judgements are proofs that he has broken the Social Contract, and so is no longer a member of the State.[2]