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[naodrith]

Got weird looks from friends today when I denounced Earthsea for containing "The Evil Iceman" and "that evil biyatch from Smallville." No one understands meeee.

Scott Peterson got the death penalty. First off, I don't believe in capital punishment for numerous reasons, but I don't think he deserves it, and this is why.

Because someone who could do what he did deserves to live, every day, in the knowledge that they are universally despised. Someone who can murder like that deserves to continue existing with no hope, no freedom, nothing but the memories.

Being alone in your own head with a murderer is far worse, to me, than hell.

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[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

I don't believe in capital punishment either, so this is good to see. :) I don't need blood on my hands just because someone else has blood on theirs. And a few people have been just...gleeful over it, and it makes me kind of sick to my stomach. :( So thank you.

[lady-of-mists.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of the glee either, even if I am for capital punishment for my own reasons. The glee would be one reason why I would consider abolishing it as in my opinion. That is worse than just executing a person. It turns it into a spectator "sport" where the participants are behaving just as the person who committed the crime did.

And I agree that being alone in your head with a murderer probably is akin to eternal torment... but only in most situations. If he really is as remorseless as they say, it doesn't bother him in the slightest except for the "inconvenience of being incarcerated" (to quote Hannibal Lecter). A person can get so hard-hearted that there is no more conscience or compunction. Living for your life in a prison cell wouldn't bother me so much then. But that's just my thoughts on it. I don't know Scott Peterson and to be frank, I don't want to. Nothing he says could possibly mitigate this crime in my mind at this point.

Not trying to start a fuss, though -- just thought I'd drop my two cents in the box. :nods:

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Well, the eternal torment thing is part of naodrith's reasoning, it's not mine. My reasons for being against capital punishment are spiritual and selfish, primarily, rather than vengeful. I don't see the point in revenge, and nothing's going to bring a person back once they're dead. I don't need to add a death to my own soul, by being part of a community that supports killing.

(And before anyone tells me, as they usually do, that I'd feel differently about revenge "if someone you knew were the victim," I'll just say that one of my friends was once found in a box chopped into bits, it was absolutely horrible, and even with the perspective, I don't see what good it would do anyone to kill more people in her name.)

[lady-of-mists.livejournal.com]

:nods: As long as someone thinks it out, I have no trouble respecting their opinion. You, Naodrith, and I have merely thought about something and come to different conclusions with the evidence at our disposal. (I was just trying to talk to both of you at the same time, not trying to attribute your thoughts to the other one -- I'm lazy that way when I have a dialup connection).

And I am sorry for your loss. It isn't easy to lose anyone -- much less someone that you care about in a way like that.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

As long as someone thinks it out, I have no trouble respecting their opinion.

That's generally how I feel as well. :) In the end we all have to try to be a person we can look at in the mirror every morning and feel good about being, after all.

Thank you. It was a long time ago now, to where it almost feels as though it happened to someone else. At least until Unsolved Mysteries replays it.

[lady-of-mists.livejournal.com]

:nods emphatically: If you can't live with your decisions, then you are probably making the wrong one.

And that would drive me insane to have to see something like that on Unsolved Mysteries. :shudders:

[lady-battousai.livejournal.com]

"that evil biyatch from Smallville."

Who might that be?

[naodrith.livejournal.com]

Lana. Eeeevil. Of course, that's just my opinion.

[lady-battousai.livejournal.com]

Actually, I agree. Eeviiiiil. Haven't been watching it lately, though I liked what little I saw of Lois' character.

[lyra-vega-05.livejournal.com]

But none of that matters. They could kill her off whenever they wanted and it wouldn't shock me. But Ice Man isn't eviiilll!. He's like the only one who never was evil.

You should tell me next time you decide to put one of our lunch conversations on LJ I could have said something really cool and you would be "Like Whoa!" or something.

hah.