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.

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[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I'm not really talking just about Saddam, it's more about the reaction Americans are having to his death, and also about the moral choice of execution (which, as I've said, I understand in regards to the Iraqis).

If anything his life is less valuable than the countless others who died each day before his execution and will die today and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after that...

I agree with you completely about that. Unfortunately, we have a leader with blood on his hands, and a lot of it, as well. It's very, very sad, and 2008 can't get here fast enough, at least in this case. If anyone needs to be tried by an International court, it's George W. Bush.

[lupin-spirit.livejournal.com]

I just realized I did I really bad job of explaining myself. I may have come off sounding like death (his death of any death) is no big deal. I'm just so offended at how big a deal this is, when we shrug off the lives of so many others.

Plus, this attitude that american opinions of the man, his life and his death have any relevance at all is so incredibly arrogant.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

*nods vigourously*

Americans do have overinflated opinions of themselves, in general. Hopefully I've made it out of the generality.