why do people kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?

[primroseburrows]

So, Saddam has been executed. Now I suppose the next thing I should hear is that all those people he killed are alive again, because isn't that why he was killed?

I can understand Iraq's feelings about this. I don't agree with revenge, but I understand it. I do NOT get America's elation. Somebody needs to 'splain, Lucy, because I just don't understand killing people for killing people. I don't honestly think I ever will, really. *sigh*

And, a twenty-year-old saying "I guess it's one less person in the world we have to deal with" makes me feel icky inside.

Comments

[on-a-hill.livejournal.com]

:( I agree.

I find him to be deplorable but in his trial, it was also clear to me that he had serious mental issues too. :(

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I think he did. I wonder if anyone gave him a mini-mental or all those other tests they give people to see if they're psychologically and psychiatrically fit to stand trial.

I'm in no way sticking up for Saddam, here, btw, just wondering as someone in the psych biz.