SORRY to respond to a 4 day old post but ive had this tab tucked away for a while and only got to reading through it.

I think the strongest case for death sentences, in this case, for the gross abuse of power is that these people cannot be deterred. They have been structurally engineered, as you acknowledge, to believe certain things, in fact, small mercies may further inculcate these beliefs that the state of things where they are punished is abhorrent and evil. The death penalty provides a sure fire safety to society, not their conception of society like the one we live in, but to our ideal society that they, who know how power operates, how our cultural bureaucracy works, from ever using that knowledge to potentially hurt us ever again.

In fact, this is primarily how the current state of things sees us. We cannot be exiled, as they did in the 1910s and 1920s, or blackballed and harangued and imprisoned like they did from the 40s to the 60s. They have to kill us, because thats the only way the dialectic and tension gets smoothed over for at least the time being. They can infiltrate our groups and imprison our leaders, but they have to kill people to stop a revolution, and much is the same for the counter-revolution.