Very true, Joseph! We are, hopefully, more civilized. Our current traitors against America are extremely lucky we no longer hang or execute. Their orange flambé leader just stated that he would put people in concentration camps and execute if he wins the emperorship. He has no clue how close he is to being parted with his golden potty …
Very true, Joseph! We are, hopefully, more civilized. Our current traitors against America are extremely lucky we no longer hang or execute. Their orange flambé leader just stated that he would put people in concentration camps and execute if he wins the emperorship. He has no clue how close he is to being parted with his golden potty in exchange for a little porcelain one in an 8x10.
However, I would like us to have enough love and compassion to bring them into, or back into, some form of humanity by learning how to give of themselves to others with whom they feel superior. To see what that actually feels like to serve, with humility. It is about the process.
And, Joseph, I don't really think having the former guy pick up doggy poo is hard labor, do you? Someone had to clean his mob's feces and urine off the walls and floors of our Capitol. I think it is a fair and equitable consequence for the leader of the filthy mob of "special people." I am sure it is something of which he and his comrades can learn to "Be Best."
I don't personally buy into the "more civilized" trope.
There are, and have always been, and will always be good reasons to execute people.
In a just and functional society, it should be relatively rare.
But societies are neither just, nor terribly functional. Given free rein, governmental powers will be used to execute people for being black, for being a "witch," for being pregnant out-of-wedlock, or for being left-handed. Consequently, much of our legal effort goes into avoiding conviction and especially, execution.
That does not mean it should never be exacted.
Trump is clearly a pathological narcissist, and from everything I've read, or heard from friends in the mental health professions, this is an uncorrectable condition. He is also a criminal narcissist: he has situated himself in positions where committing crimes is more desirable for him than not. There is zero reason to believe that he could be rehabilitated. If allowed to go free, he will do more harm.
His crime would be, in any other society, or any other time in this society, capital.
The only sane, just, and prudent choices are life in prison without parole or pardon, or execution.
Very true, Joseph! We are, hopefully, more civilized. Our current traitors against America are extremely lucky we no longer hang or execute. Their orange flambé leader just stated that he would put people in concentration camps and execute if he wins the emperorship. He has no clue how close he is to being parted with his golden potty in exchange for a little porcelain one in an 8x10.
However, I would like us to have enough love and compassion to bring them into, or back into, some form of humanity by learning how to give of themselves to others with whom they feel superior. To see what that actually feels like to serve, with humility. It is about the process.
And, Joseph, I don't really think having the former guy pick up doggy poo is hard labor, do you? Someone had to clean his mob's feces and urine off the walls and floors of our Capitol. I think it is a fair and equitable consequence for the leader of the filthy mob of "special people." I am sure it is something of which he and his comrades can learn to "Be Best."
I don't personally buy into the "more civilized" trope.
There are, and have always been, and will always be good reasons to execute people.
In a just and functional society, it should be relatively rare.
But societies are neither just, nor terribly functional. Given free rein, governmental powers will be used to execute people for being black, for being a "witch," for being pregnant out-of-wedlock, or for being left-handed. Consequently, much of our legal effort goes into avoiding conviction and especially, execution.
That does not mean it should never be exacted.
Trump is clearly a pathological narcissist, and from everything I've read, or heard from friends in the mental health professions, this is an uncorrectable condition. He is also a criminal narcissist: he has situated himself in positions where committing crimes is more desirable for him than not. There is zero reason to believe that he could be rehabilitated. If allowed to go free, he will do more harm.
His crime would be, in any other society, or any other time in this society, capital.
The only sane, just, and prudent choices are life in prison without parole or pardon, or execution.