Georgia executed Troy Davis tonight. It lights up all the anti death penalty circuits for me. And yet also tonight Texas executed one of the miserable excuses for a human being who dragged the Black guy behind their truck and I am fine with that execution. In fact if everybody with that kind of hateful racism just dropped dead it would be a much better world. So I am subject to the very emotional reaction, I call it blood lust, that I object to in others. A human failing, hypocrisy.
My arguments against the death penalty summed up: its too much power to trust the gvt. with, mistakes happen, gvts. always get carried away with power, once you start executing people how can you ever stop, it appeals to the basest human emotions, and by example it endorses killing people to settle a score 'justly'.
My arguments against the death penalty summed up: its too much power to trust the gvt. with, mistakes happen, gvts. always get carried away with power, once you start executing people how can you ever stop, it appeals to the basest human emotions, and by example it endorses killing people to settle a score 'justly'.
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