In This Selection Bedau First Draws an Analogy Between Self-Defense

question 13

Multiple Choice

In this selection Bedau first draws an analogy between self-defense and the death penalty. Just as in defending ourselves we are to use no more force than is necessary to prevent harm, so in punishing criminals we are to use no more violence than is necessary to adequately punish the criminal. Bedau then argues that neither the deterrence nor the retributive argument for capital punishment is a good argument. He thinks that the literal application of the lex talionis is barbaric and that long-term imprisonment is adequate punishment.
-Blum argues that inferiorizing and antipathy racism are

• A) synonymous.
• B) distinct.
• C) one and the same.
• D) sometimes justified.

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