# The Tender Mercies of the Wicked

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Podcast: [Blog & Mablog](https://stenobird.com/podcast/blog-mablog-17703)
Published: 2026-03-03T18:05:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 621

## Resource

Let us begin with the death penalty. Because we refuse to execute the dangerous people who really should be executed, we wind up having to protect the general population by locking them up, and this has drifted into the practice of locking everybody up. This creates a huge apparatus of injustice. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/

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