07-13-2011, 12:26 AM
So now you're saying it's about mercy? In your previous comment you seemed to imply that the punishment should be exacted for revenge, as it isn't fair on the victims' survivors that such criminals should be cared for using tax-payer money. I don't believe that the taking of a life is ever justified. Never. Not a single variation on it at any time for any reason. If murder is murder is murder, then it can never be made morally okay. JMHO.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

