I'm against it.
But after hearing about those little Amish girls in Pennsylvania, I have to give it some more thought.
Do you let a rabid dog live because you think killing an animal is cruel?
For the record, if they'd held a vote in my 8th grade class, I would have been elected as the boy most likely to climb a tower and start shooting. I was unpopular, the class freak. I was picked on and made fun of for 6 years without any relief. But it never even crossed my mind to go pick up a gun and start killing the kids who were making fun of me. And I can't even begin to fathom the thought process that drives a man to grab a gun twenty years later and go spaughter a bunch of innocent hildren.
Nor do I feel any burning need to understand what drove that piece of sub-human filth to his atrocities.
Call me old fashioned, but I still believe that you don't try to understand a monster; you simply kill it before it gets to the kids.
Posted by Rich at October 5, 2006 5:01 PM | TrackBackI agree with the sentiment here. I like to think that generally it's not right to take the life of another as punishment, even if that person has done something really brutal. But some crimes are just so horrendous that killing the perpetrator seems to be the only option.
Posted by: Matt on October 8, 2006 10:21 AM