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>Frank Masingill wrote to Mark Bloss about Death Penalty
 MB> message that the  victim was not worth saving in the first place, but
 MB> the criminal: we will do all that we can to save him because his life is
 MB> valuable. That  is flawed.  No, the murderer has lost their right to
 MB> live; they have forfeited it.  This is logical, and it is right.
 FM> I watched the lives of Manson and his crew on the biography channel
 FM> last night.  It seems that the women have had some years to think about
 FM> the horror of their crime and the reflection must be some punishment
 FM> for them.  Manson is and was clearly insane in any meaning of that word
 FM> I THINK you and I would give to it regardless of the degree of his
 FM> intelligence.  I keep coming back to the matter of justice.  One of the
 FM> women said that she plunged the knife into one of the victims sixteen
 FM> times.  Should that have been done to her in order to bring about some
 FM> equalization
 
 Equalization is relative.  No: in my opinion, plunging a knife into the 
 offender does nothing but take muscle and a knife, and messes up the 
 carpet to boot.  Better if she had been hanged.  It's cheap, clean, 
 and inexpensive.  Also, the body can be burned afterwards for the value 
 of the potassium for fertilizer.  Don't "enhance" the killer's ego; 
 just get it done quick and dirty, any way you can, so we can get
 back to work;  provided an execution is carried out by a Just State,
 and not individuals carrying out their own brand of "justice".
 
 Naturally, I am also happy that some reflection by those locked away
 for many years have had some benefit.  They certainly did NOT deserve
 the consideration, however.  But since they received it, it appears to
 me they should feel gratified by a society which took them in, gave 
 them clothes to wear, food to eat, and cable TV, with my tax dollars.
 FM> I don't think the question of justice can be so lightly dismissed
 FM> as unimportant.
 It is by no means unimportant.  It is the MOST important thing of all.
 Gratifying the ego of a killer by making such a big deal about the 
 method of their demise is not Just - it's a waste of time and effort.
 And it's Unjust to society to be all that picky about how its done,
 in my opinion.
 
... Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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