Hi, Butcher, I'm not getting into a debate about the merits of feminism here, all I'm saying is that feminism isn't about doing men down, which is what the people who would like to keep women "in their place" might want us to believe.
When I owned a house, I planted some birch trees. They grew tall, and I had to keep taking the tops off because their size was worrying my neighbour. I don't know if the trees are still there; I suspect not.
I have nowhere to plant trees now, wich is a shame because I do love trees.
I'm not keen on the idea of the state employing people who are capable of killing other people in cold blood. Possessing that ability would normally make a person unemployable.
According to the unsinkable one, we are the most ignorant, acerbic, arrogant, prideful useful idiots he knows, and that man knows a lot of idiots, believe me.
Forgive me, Father, for I am committing the sin of pride.
It's not a comparison, it was a questioning of how people can reconcile having those two conflicting attitudes. It's as if in order to be able to live with their more barbaric tendencies, people have to balance them out with over sentimental ones, so they can convince themselves they really are good people, after all.
As for crying over the death of a murderer, that's the wrong question. Why do you execute a murderer? Isn't it because to kill another human being in cold blood is the ultimate crime; the greatest wrong that can be commited? Isn't that why it is considered fitting that a murderer should receive the ultimate punishment?
How can a society claim to be civilised when it behaves in the same way as the people it condemns as the worst examples of humanity? It isn't about what the murderer deserves, it's about the rest of us being better than him; not becoming like him.
They only seem to consider methods that involve an element of cruelty. It's not enough to simply kill a man; it seems that the equipment used to do it must be designed to instil the maximum amount of terror in him as well. Just think of the gas chamber, the electric chair, and even the lethal injection, with all the straps and clunking apparatus. It's like they were deliberately designed to cause psychological torture before they actually kill the victim.
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Well the more they have to confess, the better it is for their souls.