Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Animals
Yesterdays discussion at work was all about William's execution. The converstation went on something like this. I said "Yes the guy was a founder of the Crips street gang and yes the courts found him guilty of murdering four people during two armed robberies. But why couldn't he be given life emprisonment?" In response, I was told "The crime was so heinous that we need to make sure they never do it again." What if it was the wrong person? "It's not." "Does his life not have value? Certainly if you believe in pro-life values his life should be just as precious as the life of an unborn child." "Who cares about animals like him? I think they should exterminate them all. We would not have crime anymore. They still shoot horses don't they?"
I really never understood the apparent contradiction between "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Death Penalty" until one of my "red" colleagues at work ''explained'' it to me. By labeling the criminal as an animal, they can separate them from their personhood. The label categorizes criminals as subhuman. The label also is and has been attached to other people such as Native Americans, Germans, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, and now middle easterners. It's pretty clear to me now - they claim to be the uebermensh and the rest are untermensh. And this rationale is used to justify the death penalty, torture, even war.
I have to wonder how soon until this rationale is used to eliminate non-productive drug users, prostitutes, old people, handicapped people, sick people...
...even dissentors?
Death as an answer will always lead to more death. Either you believe in killing or you don't. A nation cheers the death of what they disapprove of and condemns a death they did not approve of.
If a government teaches its people killing solves, then they will believe it and have no way to put an end to it. Such is America, founded on killing off what they did not want.
Good post HiTek, society needs to be hit hard with the horror of what they will accept.
When you stop and look at how many now a days dont even know the meat thay eat shoot some that believe others should die with such hate give them a knife and a cow or pig and say butcher this wonder if it would be as easy to eat???? What happened to forgivness and humans being able to learn and change how can people care when thay have never truly been shown care????
How many have cryed for others deaths ever killed a unborn child or say its not my life so who cares i pray thay never get charged with something with no proof but anothers words and hate for what thay stand for but then im sure if ever i felt the need to kill i would want to know all the facts not just second hand news.
But then im not one to hate just because someones with a group or race or what ever all humans deserve the right to be who thay are and not prejudged from a blind point of view i think.
