Why, According to Metz, Are African Consequentialist Arguments Against the Death

question 846

Multiple Choice

Why, according to Metz, are African consequentialist arguments against the death penalty unpersuasive?

• A) They rely on inconclusive evidence about the penalty's deterrent value.
• B) They implausibly value communal relations above individual autonomy.
• C) They wrongly imply that the value of human life is only a conditional value.
• D) They focus too strongly on comparatively rare miscarriages of justice.

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