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What nonfiction books have caused a paradigm-shift in your life? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by SighBapanada@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] devnull406@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Sun Does Shine - I was a supporter of the death penalty until I read this book. It totally rocked my world and I realized how totally wrong I was. There are evil people in this world, but I am not God and I don't get to decide who lives and dies. Also, if there is even a small chance that someone was wrongly convicted, we can not kill them - we make ourselves murderers.

Really this book made me rethink my entire view on systematic racism, the prison system, and the death penalty.