id still say im purdy adamant about my situation here.
bastie:
(welcome here, btw), the tax argument is a good one to make, but its, oddly, in the other direction the -- the dollar situation is actually reversed, as more money goes into killing someone than into preserving him (and thats solely due to our legal system. good or bad, it has to check, double check, re check, and check again, just to make sure, which ends up costing a fortune).
even in a case like mcveigh's, where he more or less professed all guilt and accepted his sentance long before it was passed, it still took nearly 5 years, and countless trials, for everything to go thru.
michael, franta:
exactly my point. even in the batbooks, alfred is constantly telling bruce that, tho effective, vengence doesnt serve any purpose other than blackening the soul. comic book character or not, he's right.
whether your watching your son's killer die, or suing him for millions in damages, you're not getting anything of value. all you want is your son, and thats hidden beneath what you think you want -- for "him" to pay. and, once you get that wish, you realize how hollow it was, and how it, more than likely, makes you feel even worse.
granted, its a SHITLOAD easier to talk about this, from my perspective than, say, anyone who's actually lived it. and, where i in their shoes, i might be just as fond of seeing him die as they were.
but, with a cooler head (not necessarily cleaner and/or brighter), ill never see the logic or benefit in the death penalty -- and i think that decision would be much easier for our country, as a whole, to make, were our prison system DEvolved about 1000 years.
