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Originally Posted by host
The thread turned into a "no mercy" outpouring....IMO, a society with no capacity for mercy....one that reacts in a predictable, hardline fashion, is an ideal setup for supporting, or acting complacently to politicians who decide to wage contrived, aggressive war.
I don't recognize my own countrymen. When did it get so ugly and unforgiving towards the powerless, and so supportive of the most powerful, no matter how much they deceive the supporters and abuse their power.
I missed the part where we turned into who the majority demonstrate that they are now....
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I think she has been shown mercy. Her treatment, to my knowledge, has not been inhumane. I'm not in favor of treating her inhumanely, stated that earlier. I'm not in favor of revenge either. It does not benefit those who seek it nor those that are inflicted by it. I'm in favor of justice. She did some horrible things. She should serve her sentence (I'm actually glad her sentence was commuted, not in favor of my tax dollars going to killing people) however as I stated earlier if her family can pay for her treatment and the state/tax payers could be saved from having that burden, then let her out.
And I don't see her as always being "powerless." At one time she had a knife in her hand and she had all the power. Power over her victims lives as well as her own. She used that power extremely poorly.