From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 20:22:50 MDT
Revenge in the American spirit is an interesting thing, I've thought
about it recently. Why haven't we heard about attempts on the life of
OJ Simpson? Why are we not hearing about vigilante's hunting down
crooked board members and executives?
Is there a theory of selective social conscience out there?
-crw.
On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 08:27 PM, Cory Przybyla wrote:
>
> --- John K Clark <jonkc@att.net> wrote:
>> "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com> Wrote:
>>
>>> It is actually much worse to kill the innocent
>> than to possibly
>>> let a real muderer loose without rehabilitation
>> imo.
>>
>> Worse for who? In neither case does the law intend
>> to harm innocent people
>> but in fact the victims are equally innocent and
>> equally dead.
>>
>> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
>
> Worse for the victim. Having to wait for a legislated
> death by the state surrounded by guards who hold you
> in contempt for something you didn't do, knowing that
> there's esentially no hope at escape. Except for the
> case of extremely gruesome, or prolonged tortorous
> deaths, I for one believe death by a murderer is much
> less horrible. And the methods are barbaric when we
> know relatively painless ways to execute involving
> extreme chemical euphoria. But of course as we saw
> with McVeigh that there's a huge desire for revenge in
> the American spirit, so this won't happen anytime soon.
>
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