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Moral suicide If a living breathing human being is killed out of vengeance is it considered justice? George Orwell vividly describes how destroying a life in full bloom also destroys a large part of ourselves. Society bases its laws on justice and the moral community that requires that each person respects the life and liberty of others. Those who commit vicious crimes destroy the bases on which a moral community rests. These unwritten moral ethics should not only include the criminals but should include everyone, including the state. When supporting the death penalty we not only kill the criminal we destroy a piece of ourselves. Capital punishment corrupts our mind. Orwell vividly describes how destroying a life in full bloom also destroys a piece of our mind. In “A Hanging” written by Orwell, he describes his experience with an execution. “He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden