deadlightsgirl | politics etc.

Sorry about this, we all know I don't go here often.

I'm for the death penalty. In extreme cases of repeat offenders, where there isn't any doubt. No one in the world will ever be able to convince me that it wasn't a good idea to put Ted Bundy to death. I could have pulled that switch myself and slept fine that night. Susan Smith deserved all the torments of hell for what she did to her two little boys, and so does every repeat sex offender or child molester. Screw chemical castration, Andre Chikatilo was impotent and he just used a hammer instead on the 200 women and children he killed (maybe the number was 50, not 200. Same difference). These people are predators with no regard for human life and would do it again if they had the chance (maybe not Smith, but so many years later and she is as unrepentant as ever and if you don't know who she is, look her up and try not to throw up).

I remember when the Matthew Shepard thing happened. It was horrible. It was horrible what was done to him, and the reasons it was done were just as bad. Those reasons are relevant in the courtroom when trying to prove guilt...motive is always relevant. But a crime needs to be measured on the basis of it being a crime, and NOT on the basis of what was going through the perpetrator's head while they committed the crime. Thoughtcrimes weren't cool when Orwell wrote about them, and this is the beginning of that.

Someone asked me recently why I don't go to church (I didn't try to explain the notion of a Masonic lodge to this person). She asked, was I not spiritual. I said, on the contrary, I am intensely spiritual, I'm just not religious. Why do I need to go to a special place to talk to god? If god is everywhere, then he is in my kitchen if I want to talk, because if he isn't there, he isn't in the church either. Or synagogue. Whatever. I love and respect honestly faithful people, and if the rules of one particular religion work for them, that's great.