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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: Neocon who wrote (16047)6/29/2002 6:23:48 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 21057
 
The father bought reams of toilet tissue and sent them to the German consulate in New York.

I wonder how he would have felt sitting across the table from someone who had worked in a camp negotiating what that person needs to do to make up for his crimes. That's different from a token gesture from a government.

I would gladly have pulled the switch on Susan Smith, and I did not even know her children.......

I guess there are just different people in the world. I would rather know the person recognized what he did wrong and was doing XYZ to make up for it, like supporting the victim's family or working with drug abusers or donating a kidney. At least I think so.

The last time I remember feeling a desire for vengeance was when I was a kid, no more than ten, and my cousins were careless with my toys and broke favorites. It really upset me. At some point I figured out that it made more sense to protect my toys from them than to expect them to be punished. I felt a twinge of wanting to get back at my husband for "taking the best years of my life" when I divorced, but I felt it only momentarily and it was gone. I've experienced losses through the malice or carelessness of others, including death, but I never felt vengeance.
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