Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
And this leads me to my other question regarding why Death Row Inmates are put in Suicide Watch when they get moved to the Death House.
Because the State is reserving the right to kill them. It's not a punishment if they kill themselves. It's an escape.
Also, when they're in custody the State is responsible for them.
Is this going to become a thing about capital punishment? 'Cuz I'm down for an argument. The gobernment has no more right to kill anyone than I do.
However, if someone is trying to kill my son (for instance) I'm putting lead directly into his forehead. I don't know if that is a Right that is correct, but there it is.
Old Betsy.
I object in the strongest terms.
Why not "Old Minear"?
You'll have to ask the State of Indiana.
The gobernment has no more right to kill anyone than I do.
However, if someone is trying to kill my son (for instance) I'm putting lead directly into his forehead. I don't know if that is a Right that is correct, but there it is.
I suppose the gobernment's argument is that all of its citizens fall under the same purview that your son does to you, hence the killification.
Paterfamilial Gubmint:Citizens as Vengeful!Gus:TragicallyMurderedSon
But I don't think there's a Right to Kill, or a Right to Live or a Right to Die. I think nature takes care of mortality well enough without much attention to Rights or Wrongs.
The State of Indiana and I are not on speaking terms.
People did name guillotines and executioners' swords.
People name their genitalia.
People can be strange.
The named genitalia freak me more than the named executioners' swords. Thanks, ita.
Now I'm wondering if Mrs. Bobbit named her knife.
OK, let us leave goberment out it. It will be a while before we can convince it that it is not our parent, but our servant.
I think nature takes care of mortality well enough without much attention to Rights or Wrongs.
It does. We are all in the same burning house.
I was not talking, so much, about vengence as about prevention. The state's case is that no one who has been executed has ever committed a murder after the execution, so its killification is justified, behind the prevention angle.