barbarians

[realthog]

What wonderfully courageous people we live among.

Think what bravery it took to strap down a defenseless lunatic and inject him with poison. (Ve voss only following orderz.)

Think of the amazing courage of VA Gov Tim Kaine in sending a madman to his death.

The Supreme Court? Wow. The greatest courage of all. Hell, the legal case was clear: no one but a sane person would think it a good idea to doctor the back of a car so they could snipe at random at civilians in DC. Heavens-to-Betsy, that's the kind of thing sane people do all the time.

Meanwhile we have this: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091123/editors

Who, to be honest, is the more nuts here? It's hard to tell. But I can damn' well tell who's the more deserving of punishment.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It stinks. There is no excuse for the death penalty.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

It stinks.

That sums it up completely, really. Only a morally bankrupt nation could countenance it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Yep.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly when I read that this morning.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

It's sickening. And yet you'll hear self-proclaimedly pious people around here proclaiming that execution is a moral duty that makes us shine more radiantly in the light of the Lamb (etc.).

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

I can easily imagine that, but ew.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

ew

You bet. There are plenty of things about this adopted country of mine that require a strong stomach (amid many good things, of course), but the pietistic unctuousness in order to justify the killing of other human beings takes some beating.