07-13-2011, 09:18 AM
I believe everyone is an individual, including monsters. You and I aren't exactly alike. Lennon's killer and Brady aren't exactly alike. I class the former as sick in the way that people with cancer are sick. I regard the latter as sick in the way human garbage such as him are sick. You keep implying I have sympathy for Brady, which is twisting my words. You're trying to make me seem like a psychopath sympathiser and you know it. I'm not. I just don't see crime and punishment in as black and white a manner as you do. Furthermore, I find it a bit rich that you're criticising me for going off topic when you were the one who brought up the whole eye for an eye thing. I just answered it. Maybe I shouldn't have. I'm sorry.
"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