Letters to the Editor
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Death Sentence is indefensable
There is no sustainable argument for killing as punishment, be it logical, ethical, moral, philosophical or practical. It is a clear display of how we humans use the power of our large brains to delude ourselves using emotions and the reptilian reactive brain. It is hypocritical for starters, to kill someone because they have killed. But more so, it is bizarre that we assume death is a punishment. This is the most insane operating belief, in my opinion, we have. Without mortality, there would be no life, period. Life is the primary cause of death. This disconnection from reason and intuition is no less than amazing to me. It is also astonishing that so called "Christians" could ever support the death "penalty". Don't get me wrong, I find the unintentional irony delicious and as much a part of who we are as anything else.
As for politics, there can be no real healing for Iraq in the killing of Saddam. There can be no reverse-justification for the war by the killing of Saddam. There can be nothing but the act of killing for revenge, against every single moral code of all three Abraham-originated religious traditions on Planet Earth.
Nothing will be gained from this for anyone but Saddam. He does not suffer, or spend the balance of his life reflecting on his crimes as a captive deprived of freedom. He wins again.