Thread:Comments:US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticizes Turkey over human rights concerns/Human Rights in Society/reply (11)

Of course there are countries where terrible atrocities are more common, I am judging specifically an American politician on her hypocrisy since they are meant to be a rich and enlightened country.

I take your point, it chimes with what I said about the base instinctive response of 'an eye for an eye' which every human being can sympathise with to a point (especially when the crimes are particularly atrocious), no matter what they say otherwise.

However I feel my point still stands - its the fixing of deep rooted social problems that will achieve the goal of drop in serious crime, not the threat of death.

Of course there are no text books on how to fix societies, especially one so regressive, but I will not defend or accept capital punishment.