1.17.2005

to be innocent in this matter

As a supporter of the death penalty, Gen18 makes me do a doubletake. All along, the grand issue of justice has moved my thinking toward capital punishment in the vein that once a wrong has been committed of any serious nature, there is no reparation possible. Nothing monetary, nothing. Only like can repay like in the OT eye4eye sense.

Arguments against it always ranged from mercy to cruel/unusual. But there's also the line of thought about protecting an innocent in an imperfect system. Abraham debates with God the merits of destroying S&G for the sake of the innocents, whittling down the number from 50 to 10 before God stops the debate.

So what of this line then? Stop the system for the sake of the ten? I don't know.

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