Can you have compassion, love even, for someone who has been the victim of horrific acts? Honest question, what are your limits of compassion?
Do you have compassion, love, or have you given a thought to the next victim of these criminals?
Do you have compassion, love, or have you given a thought to the next victim of these criminals?
Simultaneously, I can understand the desire for the closure that comes with enacting the death penalty while being completely against it.
The modern project has been one of establishing a reality where individual moral status is inherent, rather than tied to God, the state, ethnicity, or social worth. I don't see a series of steps that would take me from my current stance to any of those. I'd have to overcome a very real moral revulsion.