Capital Punishment

Jun 15, 2006 00:39

I know I don't post much any more, but I liked this and felt the need to share ( Read more... )

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jnnfr965 June 20 2006, 01:11:00 UTC
That's IT? Man, people must be afraid to start this conversation. Oh well. I contributed. *pats self on back*

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adarjapheth June 20 2006, 01:30:51 UTC
People are afraid, yes...

At work today, there was a headline about Sadaam Hussein possibly being executed by hanging. Some of my coworkers were practically cheering about this, saying they wished they could hang him themselves, and such. I rolled my eyes and told them no one should ever rejoice in another human being's death, no matter the circumstances.

Afterward, one of the girls very timidly asked me if I thought she was a bad person after that. I told her of course not, I don't condemn people for having different beliefs.

So you can see an example of how these things are always a touchy subject.

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jenn_possible June 24 2006, 04:32:23 UTC
On an almost unrelated subject, don't you find the intense hatred of Saddam to be kind of random? I mean, you'd expect it about bin Laden, but why Saddam? Iraq totally sucked with him in charge, but it's not like the U.S. people have some kinship with Kuwait and were just really pissed when Iraq invaded. There are just so many dictators that are arguably worse, so why Saddam?

That's all.

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yoda21182 June 24 2006, 05:08:47 UTC
Because the goverment spent a lot of money painting him as the posterboy for all that's wrong ith the world. Not to say that's he's a good guy, but he gets shouldered with the rep;ercussions of a lot of shit he didn't do.

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yoda21182 June 24 2006, 05:09:18 UTC
By he way, that was Colby. I'm on Martin's computer. :)

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