Re: Dead Men Walking
How precious is life?
Who's life is worth more? The innocent or the guilty , the rich or the poor , the educated or the ignorent? What about Evil and educated or poor and innocent or rich and ignorent?? How do we judge?
Do we allow criminals to live but allow their victims to perish because they cant afford health care?
Do we spend money on high tech jails and feed killers but allow innocent people in third world countries to starve to death?
Do we protect peadophiles from the world or do we protect the world from them?
Is it more compassionate to lock a man in a tiny cell for the rest of life with no hope of release than to end his life painlessly and spare his victims and family the torture of his presence on this earth?
Compassion is a huge word ..It has many forms and differs from person to person. What one person finds compassionate another might find intolerable.