取舍 / Trade-off

Author: Dexin Kong
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3831-5725
Structured and refined with assistance from ChatGPT
AI Automatic Translation (Unreviewed)

Discussion

A well-known legal scholar once raised a question during a discussion.

Why is the death penalty generally not the maximum sentence for rape?

Many people felt confused:

“For such a serious crime, why doesn’t the maximum sentence go all the way to death?”

The scholar did not continue discussing sentencing itself.

Instead, he asked a different question:

“If someone already knew with certainty that he would die after committing the assault, what would he do next?”

The room suddenly fell silent.

Almost everyone thought of the same phrase:

“Destroy the evidence and eliminate the witness.”

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