[spydar]

While I can understand the logic of Timber's argument (and it was a really good one, better than most I've come across) I still can't justify state-sanctioned execution. It isn't justice, where's the justice in giving the criminal the easy way out (as some would put it)? And how does the "eye for an eye" bit in any way make up for the fact that they killed someone. It doesn't, plus it just pulls us down to their level and completely undermines the basis for the universal taboo on murder. You killed a man, so I'm going to kill you for killing that man, and that somehow makes me a better person than you because somehow this murder is right. It doesn't matter, murder is murder no matter what kind of spin you try to put on it, even if that spin is "justice".


incidently, these are my exact thoughts on war, and I guess it fundamentally comes down to individual definitions of morals.