Comments on: U.S., Iran - “blood brothers” http://tete-tete-tete.com/412/us-iran-blood-brothers/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: smijer http://tete-tete-tete.com/412/us-iran-blood-brothers/#comment-32942 smijer Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:25:19 +0000 http://tete-tete-tete.com/412/us-iran-blood-brothers/#comment-32942 Exactly my view. Feeling that way is extremely natural & understandable. To confuse such feelings with ideas like "justice" is to undermine the ideal of justice and to invite vigilantism and the murder of innocents. Exactly my view. Feeling that way is extremely natural & understandable. To confuse such feelings with ideas like “justice” is to undermine the ideal of justice and to invite vigilantism and the murder of innocents.

]]> By: Buck http://tete-tete-tete.com/412/us-iran-blood-brothers/#comment-32938 Buck Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:24:41 +0000 http://tete-tete-tete.com/412/us-iran-blood-brothers/#comment-32938 <blockquote>move the world away from lethal revenge as government policy</blockquote> This is why I am against the death penalty. Even though I completely understand the emotional ties to it when it comes down to some heinous crime like burying an 8 year old child alive after raping and torturing her. When somebody does something like that there is something innate in us that wants to kill the bastard and kill them slowly and painfully. I understand that emotion. I experience it along with death penalty advocates when those situations arise. But I have come to see it as a part of my human nature that I need to learn to control.

move the world away from lethal revenge as government policy

This is why I am against the death penalty.

Even though I completely understand the emotional ties to it when it comes down to some heinous crime like burying an 8 year old child alive after raping and torturing her. When somebody does something like that there is something innate in us that wants to kill the bastard and kill them slowly and painfully. I understand that emotion. I experience it along with death penalty advocates when those situations arise.

But I have come to see it as a part of my human nature that I need to learn to control.

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