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Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

37 pointsby halperteryesterday at 11:36 PM13 commentsview on HN

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winter_bluetoday at 2:04 AM

There's a summary of this essay on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Guillotine

This is a 1957 essay by Algerian-French philosopher Albert Camus.

quantummagictoday at 2:22 AM

> it is obviously no less repulsive than the crime,

Hard disagree. There are people who deserve death, and it is a good thing when it happens. It's just really dangerous to give the state such a power.

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