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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Abortion is an even more difficult topic (and I'm not even sure I have a firm opinion about this), so I don't think I want to get into this right now.

Whee! Maybe I should rant about that next, because it would be a long, drawn out one with LOTS OF CAPITAL LETTERS. *g*