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The most extreme form of punishment, especially for very young humans, is the pain of death. Everything about a young child strives and struggles for birth and life. Killing a child is easily the most unspeakable torture possible. It is worse in the extreme than a lifetime of struggle and suffering. Even in struggle and suffering there can be nobility. Killing a child to protect it from suffering is the act of madmen.