tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post5598788754701360145..comments2023-08-06T02:22:31.490-06:00Comments on clarity2009: The devil just couldn't waitRelax Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post-62481913055908093752009-10-04T14:03:14.587-06:002009-10-04T14:03:14.587-06:00I am myself, Relax Max. Each opinion I reached by...I am myself, Relax Max. Each opinion I reached by my own thinking and my own set of beliefs. It's one reasons I tend to bristle when someone accuses me of herd mentality.Stephanie Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post-17221727245225140012009-10-04T09:45:29.182-06:002009-10-04T09:45:29.182-06:00@Stephanie B - You are a mixed bag of beliefs. Som...@Stephanie B - You are a mixed bag of beliefs. Sometimes I see reactions from you I don't expect. At any rate, nobody is going to win this argument. And probably shouldn't.<br /><br />@Redbeard76 - Sometimes it just evens out. Maybe that's what the mean by "Providence."<br /><br />@Ettrose - I know how you feel. Paradoxically, because you feel life is so important, we must take life. Oddly, I do understand.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post-32093909446374215332009-10-04T09:39:06.116-06:002009-10-04T09:39:06.116-06:00@Aris - Thank you for your comment. It wasn't ...@Aris - Thank you for your comment. It wasn't my intention to open this can of worms again, generally. I only read about Couey dying, and I wanted to report it, since I had blogged on this subject before. We all have our own private views on this subject, and nobody's mind is going to be changed. If we of opposing views can try to get along, then I suppose that in itself is a tribute to little Jessica.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post-71782380459852162842009-10-04T09:34:06.258-06:002009-10-04T09:34:06.258-06:00@Sage - You speak for many. And there are those wh...@Sage - You speak for many. And there are those who speak in favor of life imprisonment because they think that is a greater and more lasting punishment than execution. Yet we all know that unforeseen things that happen during a prison sentence may happen to pervert justice. Scotland has recently shown America how this happens. They would have let our baby killer go free because he had cancer, I presume. Forget Lockerbie and the victims. So "life imprisonment" is only theory. Execution is fact.<br /><br />But I take your comment, and beliefs, very seriously. You always make me pause and reexamine my own beliefs. Thank you.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post-3069861254919654702009-10-04T09:22:47.988-06:002009-10-04T09:22:47.988-06:00Believing that life is important is one of the thi...Believing that life is important is one of the things that sets us aside from the lower animals, and I don't want for us to ever lose our dislike for taking another life. Yet, I think, we (society) have another obligation, a higher obligation, to the ones who live under it's rules - and that is to ENFORCE the value of human life. For some of us, simply removing an offender from that society is not enough; the innocent lost life must be shown to have value too. I am not going to belabor this point yet again because you all have your views on this.<br /><br />Suffice to say that there are some of us who believe those actually caught in the act, or who confess, are in a different category (punishment-wise) than those a jury finds guilty by evidence without witness or confession. The later get life imprisonment; the former get put to death. Rehabilitation is not a factor in this type of crime.<br /><br />The difference in our beliefs is that many of you believe life may not be taken under any circumstances, else we become no better that the original killer; but I believe we as a group - society - DOES has the right (even obligation) to take a life, though any one of us individually do not.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post-33877614700338143682009-10-03T09:14:53.079-06:002009-10-03T09:14:53.079-06:00I don't pretend to be anything other that who ...I don't pretend to be anything other that who I am and my beliefs state that taking anothers life is inherently wrong.. Does taking his make us any better than him? Far better than he spends his time making restitution for his actions, and I don't mean living in comfort and style but productively behind bars with no release and be in his own personal hell every single day until he wishes for mercy.Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01005047450040559399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post-86395423380625430712009-10-02T11:06:30.800-06:002009-10-02T11:06:30.800-06:00This burns inside of me. You know how I feel about...This burns inside of me. You know how I feel about a child or a helpless animal at the mercy of someone bigger, stronger etc. I have never understood why we worry so much about making sure the harbinger of misery is kept fed and happy. I know I will not be agreed with but I do believe in an eye for an eye. I wish someone like this could be made to feel the same exact thing that poor baby felt.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178737973585191754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post-66945724306720026482009-10-02T07:48:30.610-06:002009-10-02T07:48:30.610-06:00Justice doesn't always happen the way we want ...Justice doesn't always happen the way we want it to, but it's good to know that sometimes it does, although not necessarily in the way it was expected, like in this case. Thankfully for little Jessica's sake.Redbeard76https://www.blogger.com/profile/12894995307281466889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post-8622220089416346132009-10-02T05:33:51.164-06:002009-10-02T05:33:51.164-06:00There are a lot of topics where we don't see e...There are a lot of topics where we don't see eye to eye, Relax Max. This is not one of them. If there is a hell, it's for people like this.<br /><br />And I use the term "people" loosely.<br /><br />It's a travesty that monsters like this are given room and board for so long while their victims (and those who loved their victims) suffer. That is not justice. <br /><br />"Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of."--H.L. MenckenStephanie Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148507369837201034.post-50430571201312830562009-10-02T01:23:23.353-06:002009-10-02T01:23:23.353-06:00I can't even begin to write what I really want...I can't even begin to write what I <i>really</i> want to. I'll simply say that the criminal justice system is WAY too good for some people.Ariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15625682101666386299noreply@blogger.com