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Sunday, January 6, 2013

PHILOSOPHER VERSUS PHILOSOPHER ON ANTI-DEATH PENALTY QUOTE VERSUS PRO-DEATH PENALTY QUOTE I [THE DEBATE OF THE FORTNIGHT ~ SUNDAY 6 JANUARY 2012 TO SATURDAY 19 JANUARY 2012]



            This Fortnight’s debate will be a debate between an Anti-Death Penalty Quote and a Pro-Death Penalty Quote from two philosophers.

Anti-Death Penalty Quote:

QUOTE: “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”

AUTHOR: François-Marie Arouet (1694-11-211778-05-30), better known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French writer, deist and philosopher.






Pro-Death Penalty Quote:

QUOTE: “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

AUTHOR: Adam Smith (baptized 16 June 1723 – died 17 July 1790 [OS: 5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790]) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economics.








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