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In the proper context, I can understand lethal self-defense, but I don't think I could ever support lethal retributive justice--not even as an emotional response.
This is a sad story.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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