Elizabeth Bruenig

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Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

@YourmanGodfrey do all human beings deserve death or not — PolitiTweet.org

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the argument for mercy is always an argument for human dignity despite human brokenness, and it invariably comes from a recognition that both things exist in people simultaneously -- in the wicked, sure, and also in ourselves. it never feels as badass as vengeance. — PolitiTweet.org

@ebruenig Is there a more powerful argument against the death penalty than 11th-hour halfhearted pardons granted by mortgage salesmen?

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Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

right-- caesar famously viewed clemency as most properly the virtue of a master. personally i prefer a mercy premised on the frank metaphysical equality of people: not on the idea that criminals are too far beneath you to punish, but too much like us (simply us!) to give up on. — PolitiTweet.org

@ebruenig I wonder, sometimes, whether there is value in trying to emphasize the ways that mercy *is* badass, or, a… https://t.co/VWndR6nyZx

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