Even Evil Lives Have Value

No human is worthless. Life have value and universal support must be universal. Even to the worst mass murderers etc.  
This doesn't conflict with my belief that people harmful to others and society may need to have violence, even lethal violence inflicted upon them. It's like medicine or toxin/antitoxin. Cutting out septic body parts may be necessary to save the person and other organs. But the ethical doctor planning surgery will try to limit the amount excised and attempt to heal the injured parts before resorting to removing them.


Or to be explicit: We (as society) may have to kill a Nazi etc. That is a tragedy we may have to act upon to help save society. To protect people doing no harm. BUT even the worst Nazi is a human, with human rights. They are not expendable, they are not worthless. If the person can be saved and the memetic infection flushed (or made non-virulent) that is always a better course.  


We cannot successfully advocate for the abolishment of prisons (replaced by humane secure hospice facilities keeping people who hurt others safe and separated from society) AND say things like "Throw RKelly under the jail."

Either the torture and inhumane conditions of jail are a just punishment, or they are not. Nobody wants to be seen advocating for the rights of assholes, but if we want a world without the horror of prisons, we need to accept the cost that the truly bad and harmful people will be housed humanely and treated medically at society's expense.

This is partly why I want to secure humane housing, utilities, healthcare and food support for ALL people, regardless of means, criminal history or other circumstance. Otherwise there will always be the "Why are my taxes supporting $person when $person2 is more deserving?" My argument is: Our societal cost should support us all.

When I talk about Universal rights to housing, healthcare etc. I include our political enemies. I include those who wish harm and even have done harm if we've managed to stop them without killing them. We may need to restrict some freedoms to quarantine their harm from others (like humane prisons / rehab facilities) but we don't get to categorize them as less then human. We don't have the right to torture them or starve them or enslave them. Human rights apply to all humans. 
 Without this, we risk the bigoted traps of the past.