Maria Roque filed numerous police reports and got a protection order. But the system that was supposed to protect her failed.

Maria Roque was just 34 years old when she was shot and killedon the steps outside her West Side Chicago home, in front of her 8-year-old daughter.

Her daughter and her 14-year-old son both witnessed Roque take her last breath.

In the weeks before she was killed, Roque repeatedly took all steps domestic violence victims are told to take. She got a protection order against her former boyfriend, Kenneth Brown. She also repeatedly went to the Chicago Police Department for help. She filed one police report after another and never gave up.

But the system failed her.

  • yeahiknow3@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Let me again recommended this textbook on Ethics: https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/living-ethics-9780197608876

    The death penalty is chapter 20.

    Also,

    1. “Death” isn’t (or should not be) a punishment. We don’t “punish” rabid dogs when we euthanize them. Sometimes the alternative is simply worse.
    2. Earlier you said that “evil cannot be quantified” and therefore doesn’t exist. However, quantifiability is not an ontological prerequisite. If it were, then almost nothing would exist, including you and me.
    3. You don’t need to resort to straw men. Respond to my arguments instead of arguing with yourself.
    4. Moral claims wouldn’t be “arbitrary” unless nihilism is true, which you’ve denied.