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To: koan who wrote (189109)	5/13/2012 1:33:03 PM
From: steinman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541960

I have no argument with what you say.

To: koan who wrote (189109)	5/13/2012 1:34:27 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541960

You'd really expect the right, who are so suspicious of government ineptitude, to be more cautious about the death penalty than they are. They often celebrate it; joke about it (like the Shrub)- but for folks who don't think the government can educate people, they are certainly pretty sure that it can kill them properly. I find that a bizarre instance cognitive dissonance. It's certainly not the only instance of cognitive dissonance- there are a lot of those emanating from the right, but it's a huge one. I actually like the government. It does a lot of things adequately- but like any large organization, it makes mistakes, and for that reason I don't want it killing citizens of this country. It's bad enough we let if off the leash to kill people in other countries -something which should be a good deal rarer than it is- but again, the wingnuts seem to have a blindspot for the military. The government does nothing so fabulously, in their opinion, as when it's killing- and in that case they seem to get a real boner for government.