[fla-left] Bloody execution photos draw gamut of responses(fwd)

William S. Lear rael at zopyra.com
Mon Oct 11 07:18:13 PDT 1999


On Monday, October 11, 1999 at 13:52:52 (GMT) Jordan Hayes writes:
>...
>Victims and their survivors get justice without CP; otherwise, why not CP
>for all crimes? Justice is specifically not supposed to be some kind of
>equalizing eye-for-an-eye process. Victims and their survivors are split
>on the issue; nice of you to come to their aid.
>
>Really, Max: "do it for the victim" sounds so much like "do it for
>the children" ...

Jordan, I think you seem to have missed one further point in your favor: there is no real opportunity for true murderers to come to understand what they have done, nor an opportunity to rehabilitate. Is vengeance so important that we would waste the potential still remaining in a murderer? Have we lost entirely any notion of "corrections"?

Note, dear Max, were my own son murdered by some evil scum, I would be just as bloodthirsty as you, probably more so. But this doesn't mean I want the person guilty of this to be incarcerated and, defenseless, coldly murdered by the state. This would seem to me to validate the approach of the murderer to his problems.

Bill



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