>>>>>My leisurely reading last night was rudely interrupted by the picture on the left. Just when you thought he couldn't get hairier....
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http://uwillreadnews.blogspot.com/2010/09/911-mastermind-khalid-sheikh-mohammed.html>>>>>
>>>>>I am against the death penalty but am willing to make an exception.
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>>>>then you are not against it
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>>>You beat me to it.
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>>>there are no shades of grey or exceptions on this.
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>>I agree....no grey areas in this.
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>OK, I am busted.
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>If I had to make a black or white decision I would say no capital punishment. It's just that the visceral side of me thinks no punishment could be too harsh for this guy. He planned an operation that killed thousands of innocents.
"Governor Dukakis, if Kitty were raped and murdered, how would you feel about the death penalty?"
Your reaction seems very human to me. The problem with needing the approval of "good people" is you think you should feel guilty about it. <g>
I'd kill him with my own hands without blinking and then go eat breakfast. I can understand if someone has made their own moral choices differently, but that doesn't make me at all insecure about mine.
( I would never ask the government to do something in my name I would shun doing myself. )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.