[P-40]

You stated your rationale for equivalence quite clearly.

No, I stated four of the five reasons why we put people in prison in the first place.

[TigersEye]

The context of your comment is not lost. It is written in your posts. The subject here is prison rape and your posts clearly show that you were addressing that subject.

FWIW I reject the 'revenge' motive for the death penalty just as much as I reject it for looking the way in prison rape.(or 'not caring' if that's the semantic sophistry you want to use) Claiming that our legal system validates 'revenge' (which I don't believe) is still just an excuse for your attitude. Why else would you have posted it when you did?