Comments | trustleoutterly: Closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

trustleoutterly

Closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

Jul 06, 2006 11:26

This weekend Kenneth Lay, founder of Enron corp. and mastermind of the largest corporate scandal (to date) in American history, died of a heart attack in his Aspen home (yep, the one he bought with that money he claimed not to have in bankruptcy court ( Read more... )

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wilder_hiryu July 7 2006, 00:31:07 UTC

punished in so horrific a manner, that I wouldn't want to understand it even if I had the capacity to. This sentence will go on INFINITELY with no possibility of reprieve or parole...Not ever.

What, they shipped him off to a black-op prison?

heh, sorry, being glib.

But when I first heard he had died of a heart-attack, I did ask if it was caused by running away from a mob of angry Enron exemployees that he had stolen from.

And on a serious note, don't you think he would be forgiven? If not immediatley, then eventually? And if Hell is a place of eternal torment, is the american penal system a reflection of that concept?

trustleoutterly July 7 2006, 01:34:31 UTC

Forgiven? For what reason?
He did not ask for forgiveness. Why then would he be given what he not only doesn't deserve, but what he doesn't want?
As regards the notion "eventually forgiven". The afterlife as I understand it has no linear time and "eventually" therefore, has no meaning. No, he is fixed in his state permanently (or the equivalent thereof in that previously described state)just as he willed it.

Love the angry mob imagery! I can see the cheated horde armed with pitchforks and torches terrorizing the streets of Aspen, CO
..."Give us the robber-baron! Give us Lay, and we'll spare the town!!"

"The American penal system".
Torment? absolutely.
Permanent? hmmm, I think not.