Let's Just Get All These Hot Button Issues Out Of The Way

For some reason, I still can't figure out why it's okay for the government to kill people, but it's not okay for people to kill people. It just seems incongruous. Why is it fine for one group and not fine for the individual? INEQUALITY!

Of course, I'm referring to the death penalty, a "punishment" that never seemed anything beyond medieval to me. We try so hard to make everything just and modern and then we kill people because they killed people which is WRONG, but is okay if it's sanctioned by the state. Je suis confused. And, not only do we kill them, but we wait years to do it. So, they have to sit around, waiting to die, which is more than their victims got, sure, but is that fair? Isn't that kinda cruel and unusual?

And this is more than some bleeding heart liberal claptrap. It's just logical. It's a Spock way of thinking, honestly. And I don't want no "but if your family was killed you'd want the killer to be brought to justice" b.s. Of course I would. I would want that person caught and tried and convicted and put in jail so I could screw with their head for the rest of their lives. I wouldn't want them dead. That's just absurdity on a grand scale. What, in that line of thinking, would make me any better than the killer? Revenge? Oh, there's a good motive. And what would be accomplished by their death? It sure as hell ain't gonna raise anyone I cared about from the dead. And who would I slowly torture with mind games?

To sum up, it's just a lame way out of a problem, frankly, and I think it should be abolished and I think gays should get married and I think abortion should be legal and I think that the war should be called off and I think Bush should be magically erased from history and I think Nick cheated but Jessica isn't totally free from guilt either.