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outworlder on April 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The real reason to end the death penalty

Please stop and reflect a bit on your comparison. As a reminder, we are talking about the state intentionally taking human lives. Not accidents.

iso1631 on April 23, 2021 [–]

If 300 people died in accidents in amazon warehouse or walmart accidents in the US each year OSHA would shut them down.

But 36,000 deaths from road accidents are fine. 892 of them in 2019 were "large truck occupants" that died - i.e. people working.

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