On Wednesday, the sniper who killed several people in the Washington, DC area was executed. It saddens me to read descriptive details about this atrocious aspect of the American “justice” system. It saddens me even more to read the interviews with people who lost loved ones in the shootings and decided to witness the execution.
The loss of one life cannot be justified by the loss of another life. As the wise and wonderfully magnificent Gandhi once put it, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/10/AR2009111001396.html
I am by no means condoning the acts committed by the sniper; merely expressing my sadness regarding how it is so easy to give different lives different values.
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