Dylan Roof, Charleston Church Shooter, Sentenced to Death by Federal Grand Jury

[shhh-kull & bones]

So I guess we're all for the death penalty now?

your question reminds me of a line from a famous poem

'...dont ask for whom the bell tolls...'

but with all due respect my dear breh, anyone who would commit such cold and heartless acts is,in a lot of very significant ways, already dead

now given, to dylan roofs' mind he may have rationalized his actions as part of his duty as a soldier at war---( guy pretty much confessed that)---but theres really not much honor to what he did

War in ancient times dealt with the honor principle and part of that honor is about sacrificing for a higher cause

So he pretty much knew he was making a sacrifice and knew there was no coming back--so the death penalty may actually have been part of his plan anyway--so you can say he chose that way to die

Now the death penalty has always been debated ever since I was in grade school--should it be allowed should it not--some states have it others dont

see but nobody brings up the issue of protecting civilization from degrading to savagery--which is what that penalty(hopefully) is intended to do

other ancient cultures had more advance ways of dealing with folks like dylan roof without necessarily killing them phisically but still protect the light of civilized living

you can say these ancient cultures knew how to heal or keep their people from getting to that wicked state

other then these prisons and faulty educational and pscychiatric systems are there really ways to keep people from getting to that state in todays society?

Is this society breeding these guys?

see Its not just dylan roof that was on trial and got sentenced to death

but part of you and me and this very society that created us was on trial too

dont ask for whom the bell tolls---it tolls for you and me--it tolls for the whole society

 

[tru_m.a.c]

your question reminds me of a line from a famous poem


see but nobody brings up the issue of protecting civilization from degrading to savagery--which is what that penalty(hopefully) is intended to do

We must be taking part in 2 different conversations because this is one of the main supporting arguments for the death penalty.

 

[shhh-kull & bones]

We must be taking part in 2 different conversations because this is one of the main supporting arguments for the death penalty.

...bingo..so the death penalty in that ligth is an indictment on our society and its inability to prevent,heal or deal with the dylan roofs of the world
without resorting to the crude method of physically killing them

but no one can really argue that the kid wasnt already dead...ancient cultures measured death differently than ours I guess--physical death is only one level of death so if anything the so called 'death penalty' is really redundant