Thursday 4 September 2003 — This is more than 21 years old. Be careful.
I’ve been thinking all day about Paul Hill, the murderer of an abortion doctor who was executed this week. Basically what we have here is party A kills, party B retaliates by killing A, and party C retaliates by killing B. The thing that fascinates me in all of this is that many Americans agree that two out of three of those deaths were wrong, but they disagree about which two.
I mourn for all three. I have feelings about which of the three is the least of the evils, but they’re still all evils.
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As for your post, one wonders where all of the anti-capital punishment demonstrators were when this guy was put down...could it be that they actually SUPPORT certain executions, as long as the doomed's death continues their political worldview (i.e. abortion on demand)? Note that these same folks were absent when Timothy McVeigh (racist, mysogynist, "right-wing", blah, blah, blah) was capped...
Ned: by using the labels Party A, Party B and Party C you make them sound like equivalent entities. That's the crux of the debate: is Party A equivalent to B and C or not? A person, a single-celled organism or an errant computer program can all be "killed" but these are not equivalent actions. The debate centers on whether Party A is a viable human who has been killed or not.
Not.
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