not gods
After 24 years, a man in a Florida prison is found not guilty after all. How could we need more evidence against the death penalty than that?
This man was 20, maybe 21 when he was imprisoned. For all intents and purposes he has lost the first 24 years of his adult life to someone's bad judgement. That's bad enough. Fortunately, he was not killed, not given the death sentence, just living out a 130 year life behind bars.
We are not gods. We are merely-humans. We know this. We may have the right to try and save people, heal people, make lives better. We can try to improve lives; we cannot, as far as I can see, call ourselves perfect enough to tell when someone is so bad that they should die. That has to be between the person and whatever they hold holy in the world.
that's all.
This man was 20, maybe 21 when he was imprisoned. For all intents and purposes he has lost the first 24 years of his adult life to someone's bad judgement. That's bad enough. Fortunately, he was not killed, not given the death sentence, just living out a 130 year life behind bars.
We are not gods. We are merely-humans. We know this. We may have the right to try and save people, heal people, make lives better. We can try to improve lives; we cannot, as far as I can see, call ourselves perfect enough to tell when someone is so bad that they should die. That has to be between the person and whatever they hold holy in the world.
that's all.
posted by raj at
2:55 PM
