THE RIGHT TO KILL?
Do we as a people have the right to preach with one hand that it is wrong to kill and yet take a man who has killed in the heat of the moment or as a result of mental illness, and cold-bloodedly order his death?
Our laws say that to take a life is wrong, yet, we see every day someone who has committed some heinous crime being sentenced to death for their actions.
How is this man any different from you or I?
What makes his actions any more reprehensible than our own?
In screaming out for vengeance, does this not make us just the same, Or worse than him?
At least he can be considered mentally ill. For to go so far against the laws and take a life wouldn't that be considered mental illness?
Any person could be considered mentally ill if they are a lawbreaker.
SO!!
Are we somehow correct in murdering this man, or are we also mentally ill to even consider this as a just way to treat another human.
Why don't we just remove these people from society if they are incorrigible or un-redeemable by therapy? What makes it right to murder them?
For is it not murder, to plan over a period of months, the destruction and final assassination of a man and then to invite people to watch the spectacle because they happen to have been injured by him.
This is a far more heinous crime than he committed!
Our Crime is far more deserving of penalty than is his!
And Yet we feel justified in our actions
We rationalize that he deserves his punishment.
What was his rational?......
Did he feel justified in doing what he did? Did he feel that it was the right thing to do ?
Even if it was voices in his head, or the way he was raised.
He had a valid reason for doing what he did.
Is it not our fault that he had to resort to these actions to feel alive or just to feel safe?
We are responsible!!
Just as the commander of an army is responsible for his soldiers actions. so are our superiors responsible for these people. and we are responsible for our leaders for we elect them to office. And sometimes those very leaders are the ones screaming the loudest for death.
What does this say to our children about the kind of society we are? A hypocritical murderous society is what it says to me.
Don't presume to judge a man until you have walked in his shoes.
Dpc1960
June 2000
