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

[Michael Hoover]

> What offends me is that anti-capital punishment
> appeals like the one that started this thread typically
> focus on the suffering of those who deserve no sympathy
> and block out the suffering of those who do.  The latter
> become non-persons.  To me this is emotionally
> incoherent.  I don't mind a reasoned argument
> against CP.  Chances are I would buy a lot of it.
> But hand-wringing over the condemned is one of
> my buttons.  Push it, and the board will light up.
> mbs

I don't generally read mbs but I did here because I forwarded the article.
Now we can go back and look at previous lbo death penalty threads and
discover I oppose capital punishment (in fact, it may be time to recycle
an old post).  And I'm confident that listers would find my comments 
reasoned.  In this instance, I passed along the article without comment 
and I did so for reason: I sent it to the list as example of Debordian 
'spectacle.' First response (which really initiated thread) was from mbs 
who appears to say something about almost everything on lbo if my header 
menu can be believed.  He wrote:    

Here's one more response:

   What a pity his fucking head didn't explode. 

Of course, later comments such as those above about 'reasoned argument' 
suggest that mbs is engaging in cyber-self criticism.   Michael Hoover