Debate: Capital punishment

I think it's pretty easy to say that if you've never been in one - I've had friends whose parents or grandparents were interned, and despite it being Canada, they didn't know whether they would survive or not.

I would agree that you can't know until you've been there, yet at the same time (sticking to my logic) I would accept it. Yes, perhaps it's not fair, but the reasoning behind it is simple enough. And experience isn't everything and it certainly isn't the only thing that defines your beliefs about something, though it does play an important part. "Easier said than done" applies in this kind of situation, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't stick to my beliefs once I was in the situation. To me, it would make sense in war time to treat anyone of foreign nationality with suspicion (especially from an enemy nation), however racist and discriminatory that may sound. It's a natural response to be fearful and cautious during war, and as another old saying goes, "It's better to be safe than sorry." To play in a hypothetical, what if the internment never happened and a group of Japanese had decided to start a sabotage within our country during World War 2, say in Hawaii of all places. Would it have been worth it to take the chance of letting something like that happen rather than taking the steps of internment? To me (though it wasn't done properly or fairly), it was the perhaps the only thing we could have done given the circumstances. Granted, I'm not saying internment is the right thing to do, but given the circumstances, it may be the only "safe" thing to do, whether it's right or wrong. But that's only my opinion.