tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762786.post2358268883874332281..comments2023-08-19T09:43:10.626-05:00Comments on cloud no. 9: Teaching a lesson you say? Oh well thats alrightAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315663514824685182noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762786.post-65909145638456506282011-01-24T19:24:30.962-05:002011-01-24T19:24:30.962-05:00Noam, I was not taking a stand on the death senten...Noam, I was not taking a stand on the death sentence. Though I have to add, I am for it.<br />My criticism is leveled at the decision, that somehow the motives served as mitigating factors, in not treating this case as the rarest of rare(which is the Indian classification for a crime that fits the bill for a death penalty).<br />Yes I am able to withold human compassion for those who were willing to burn children to death.<br />Frankly I find i apalling that you can call this heinous crime small potatoes. <br />You can rail against the Death sentence all you like. I have no issue with that. But equating a sentence on the law books , delivered by a court of law, and that delivered by a mob on the street is just sheer idiocy.<br />I also object to your statement "The killer was trying to do the right or noble thing".<br />If he was trying to do what he thought was right and noble, does that reduce the gravity of his crime? I think not..<br />After all the 911 hijackers also believed their mission to be noble.<br />Noam I agree we have a different way of looking at this..Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315663514824685182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762786.post-57123305876571336652011-01-24T16:03:15.557-05:002011-01-24T16:03:15.557-05:00Seriously? You can’t think of murders more deprave...Seriously? You can’t think of murders more depraved than this one? In the pantheon of human barbarity, this is such small potatoes.<br /><br />The fact is, most of the civilized world considers the death penalty, in any circumstance, an evil, so your entire premise is questionable. After all, you are calling the <em>failure</em> to committed cold-blooded premeditated murder a miscarriage of justice! Somehow you are able to withhold human compassion from these victims, in a way similar to how these killers managed to put missionaries outside the scope of their moral consideration, denying their humanity, with all the emotional complexity and fallibility that goes along with it.<br /><br />But putting aside these questions, this was a case of killing not out of cruelty or a lack of moral regard, but just the opposite. The killer was trying to do the right and noble thing. They were killing for a greater good. You may disagree with the cause, and rightly choose to punish the perpetrator so as to send a message to others thinking of doing the same thing. But you are doing the exact same thing this killer is doing. You share his methods, and his belief that such methods are justifiable. You only differ in your position on proselytizing. So maybe you can see why the killer’s motives are a mitigating factor, not an aggravating one.Noamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00491217364851975822noreply@blogger.com