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For abolish it is understood to act of repealing or canceling a law, a precept or a custom, as appropriate, in a certain community, a fact that will generate by case that from that act it is no longer observed, complying as it has been doing.

Repeal a law, use or custom

We must emphasize that the concept is closely associated with certainly complex and serious issues that have occurred and continue to occur in the framework of societies such as the death penalty and slavery, fortunately the latter abolished in most of the world several centuries.

Institutions that have been created in a certain place and that later they have wanted to suppress, such is the commented case of slavery.

The term has its origin in the Latin word abolere that refers precisely to suppress or remove.

On the other hand, those people who have dedicated themselves to tirelessly fighting against these institutional creations are called abolitionists.

It should be noted that in addition to these legal institutions it is possible to proceed to the abolition of certain uses and

traditions that may have become obsolete.

Abolitionism and its fight against slavery

Meanwhile, to the action and effect of abolishing, is designated by the term abolition and stuck to this concept we find abolitionism, as it is designated doctrine that encourages the annulment of laws or of those precepts that imply an attack against human rights and moral principles.
The aforementioned concept is used to refer to the movement who fought intensely for the abolition of slavery.

In each of the corners of the world in which they fought for the slavery go away, abolitionism, had its own peculiarities, although, Portugal It is considered one of the pioneer countries on the subject, since the Marquis of Pombal decreed the abolition of slavery in its nation in the year 1761, later, in the year 1854, was in charge of decreeing the liberation of all the slaves of its colonies, until finally, fifteen years later, the complete abolition of the same in all the world would take place. territory Portuguese.

Although abolition is closely linked to the concept of slavery, it also accepts other meanings... For example, there is a movement that employs the same designation of abolitionism but that promotes something totally different, that animals are not treated as mere properties and that the rights of all species.

On the other hand, the concept is also used in relation to forced prostitution, with the mission of combat those causes that provoke it, such as coercion, economic inequalities, among other

And on the other hand, even wage labor itself has its own abolitionist current, which considers it a direct extension of slavery.

The controversy surrounding the death penalty

And we cannot ignore the always burning and current issue of the death penalty.
Although in many countries it has been abolished, in many others, such as the United States, to name one of the modern states and democratic governments that continue to endorse it, the death penalty is still in force, of course in those states where it has not been repealed the rule.

And so it is that it is still in force as a punishment in some states of the United States, in serious crimes of course, such as treacherous murders.

On this issue there are many controversies, there are obviously voices for and against it.
Those in favor of this type of drastic punishment, such as murdering a criminal tried and found guilty of a crime, argue Among other arguments that in this way future crimes can be prevented, that whoever has committed a crime as serious as murder will not have right to continue with his life or to be protected by society because he did not have any kind of compassion with her victim, and the argument of reparation to the bereaved is also upheld.

That life is a fundamental right and that its continuity cannot be in the hands or determined by the state under any pretext or circumstance, are the arguments of those who are against it.

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