Saturday, August 11, 2007
The Death Penalty
While I was in the CVS near where Susan lives on Thursday evening, Maria Carey’s version of Without You started playing. And my mind wandered to the Death Penalty.
I am conflicted by this issue. It used to seem so easy – before my son was born. It is wrong. There should be no Death Penalty. If only guilty people were put to death, perhaps my objections wouldn’t be as strong? I couldn’t favour the Governor Bush Texan reasoning that most people who are executed are guilty so while it is a shame if the odd innocent person is murdered by the State, that is a small price to pay. In fact, I would say that while there is a Death Penalty, every asshole who sprouts that garbage should have an innocent relative of theirs killed!. They wouldn’t like that. It’s only supposed to happen to other people. The grandparents, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends who lose people in this way aren’t them, so it’s alright. Damn! Those self-righteous, ‘morally upstanding’ hypocrites make me sick!
Where is my conflict? If someone killed one of my kids, I’d want to kill them! Just as if someone raped a loved one, I’d want to personally remove all vestiges of their pathetic manhood. Don’t think I’d want the State doing it for me though, and I suppose I doubt that I would actually do either if I had the chance. But I think wishing for revenge is a natural Human emotion. So I don’t understand the ‘devout’ Christians who ‘forgive’ the man who murdered their daughter. It’s not natural and it certainly isn’t Biblical. They are in denial. Or they are lying. Or they have been brainwashed.
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I am conflicted by this issue. It used to seem so easy – before my son was born. It is wrong. There should be no Death Penalty. If only guilty people were put to death, perhaps my objections wouldn’t be as strong? I couldn’t favour the Governor Bush Texan reasoning that most people who are executed are guilty so while it is a shame if the odd innocent person is murdered by the State, that is a small price to pay. In fact, I would say that while there is a Death Penalty, every asshole who sprouts that garbage should have an innocent relative of theirs killed!. They wouldn’t like that. It’s only supposed to happen to other people. The grandparents, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends who lose people in this way aren’t them, so it’s alright. Damn! Those self-righteous, ‘morally upstanding’ hypocrites make me sick!
Where is my conflict? If someone killed one of my kids, I’d want to kill them! Just as if someone raped a loved one, I’d want to personally remove all vestiges of their pathetic manhood. Don’t think I’d want the State doing it for me though, and I suppose I doubt that I would actually do either if I had the chance. But I think wishing for revenge is a natural Human emotion. So I don’t understand the ‘devout’ Christians who ‘forgive’ the man who murdered their daughter. It’s not natural and it certainly isn’t Biblical. They are in denial. Or they are lying. Or they have been brainwashed.
