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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (39260)	3/18/1999 12:23:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

<<On principle he should give everything as payment toward the grave ethical disparity he created. This is the death penalty, my friend.>> I disagree and see this as the dilemma that keeps us schizoid over the death penalty. Putting a person to death as his penalty for an offense to society, NEVER balances the scale of debt. The surviving members of a family, for example, are not paid back, and society collects nothing from the corpse. Not being put to death results in the continued burden to society. This level of criminal is bound to continue manipulating the system to meet their selfish and evil agenda. This includes all kinds of bogus claims such as having cleaned up their life or renewed their commitments to humanity. There is no such thing as being able to pay their debt to society in these cases. These claims of rehabilitation rarely manifest themselves once the perpetrator is readmitted into society. If they remain the burden of society in life long incarceration, they are even more likely to continue with an evil agenda. Simply put, there are certain crimes that no society is equiped to deal with. When someone perpetrates this type or level of crime, they should be immediately sent to final judgement (via the death penalty). It is not heartless. This determination is not an issue of human compassion because once a person goes to this level of evil, he has stepped beyond the guidelines we have been given by God to deal with one another. It's no longer our business. Human, love, hate, vengeance, mercy, charity, tolerance are not the issue. If they were as the current debate insists, I would not support the death penalty. In the presence of God's judgement, murderers are faced with the murdered persons testimony against their soul and perfect justice is administered. Sure we could make a mistake in judging them guilty here on earth. We have a guarantee that they would have their just rewards and punishments accordingly.