re: Aaron Hernandez and the death penalty - semi updated OP

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It's a decent theoretical point, but I don't think you're right. I think your version is a reasonable explanation of how a reasonable society would do it. In truth, I don't think people give a shite about murder and rape if the people being murdered and raped are in circles or communities where it isn't that uncommon. There is no outrage because people don't really care.

The obvious exceptions are when someone from outside that community kills someone arguably in those circles (Trayvon Martin - world explodes) or whenever someone in that community kills a lily white person (crickets).

Unless it is a wife gone missing (and her husband has to be white, this is important) or you kill a kid or something, in many ways, racism is the worse crime. Or at least the urge of dumb white people to stand up and shout about how awful the racist is certainly provides that perception.

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