Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)
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July 04, 2026
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winter_blue
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.
quantummagic
> 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.