Comments on Stonekettle Station: Don't assume that you know me, really

It would never occur to me to make someone suff...

2007-11-08T16:37:00.000-09:00
It would never occur to me to make someone suffer for those acts.

Exactly. You may love dogs as I do, but when there's a rabid one in the yard that is threatening your family, you don't play cat and mouse with it, you don't beat it for being rabid (or to get information on the location of other rabid dogs), you get rid of it.

If you're a liberal you cry and call animal control to come 'dispose of it', if you're a conservative you call the cops 'to come shoot it, cause that's what we pay you for,' if you're a Libby you dammed well shoot it yourself, if you're a Green you trap it humanly put it to sleep and use it for compost, and if you're a Randian you argue with it until it commits suicide.

But you don't fucking torture it, you just get rid of it.

Tania, that essay is chilling. And very,...

2007-11-08T15:51:00.000-09:00
Tania, that essay is chilling. And very, very sad.

Gosh, now I really want to buy you a growler at Mo...

2007-11-08T15:32:00.000-09:00
Gosh, now I really want to buy you a growler at Moose's Tooth.

I found this interesting reading:

The Cancer From Within

Steve,

Interesting that you and I hold the ...

2007-11-08T15:28:00.000-09:00
Steve,

Interesting that you and I hold the same view on the natural consequences of doing harm to me and mine (or you and yours).

It would never occur to me to make someone suffer for those acts. Since my own moral code is based in part on the idea that bad behavior on someone else's part does not justify it on mine, making the perpetrator suffer would make me a "torturer" and thus reprehensible. A bullet between the eyes settles the matter quickly and justly. And permanently.

And yet, I am deeply ambivalent about the death penalty. There's something inherently distasteful about the "state" taking a life, especially when it takes them years and years to go from conviction to death. That seems like cruel and unusual punsishment to me.

Yea, verily.

I remember having a discussio...

2007-11-08T14:43:00.000-09:00
Yea, verily.

I remember having a discussion with some one about what I would do should something horrible be done to those closest to me. My response was that I would kill those responsible. This person agreed and said they would do it slow and painfully. I responded indignantly. "They would never know I was there until they were dead or at least beyond help, because I don't want to hear crap from them, and I don't want them to surrender. Because then I couldn't kill them." Granted, the method would be of my own choosing and I do have a prediliction for sharp objects. I am, however, a damn good shot at long distances as well.

I remember an interview with the CIA agent that was first to go back into Afghanistan, when he was told his mission was to bring Osama back (after aligning with the Northern Alliance). His response to his handler was classic, "I can fashion a pike in the field, but finding dry ice in that country will be problematic."

Torture puts us on their level (if you like to hold those conceptions about the enemy). Any victory we have will be a pyrrhic victory if we continue to allow these practices.

So Jim's a Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian Ciga...

2007-11-08T14:07:00.000-09:00
So Jim's a Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian Cigarette who considers torture a black and white issue and tells it like it is?

My kind of guy. As your resident bug-eating bitch-girl, allow me to say "hubba, hubba."

I like you, Jim. And not because I think you migh...

2007-11-08T13:48:00.000-09:00
I like you, Jim. And not because I think you might be homosexual and available -- but rather because you say it like it is. I admire that even if I disagree with a person's views. In this case, I happen to completely agree with your views, so that's a bonus.

And just to clarify, since I've made the mistake on your site before, I'm not gay, nor am I looking to become so.

On a separate but vaguely related note, my Father-in-Law calls cigarettes "Fags", and it makes me laugh every time.

Comments on Stonekettle Station: Don't assume that you know me, really

It would never occur to me to make someone suff...

Tania, that essay is chilling. And very,...

Gosh, now I really want to buy you a growler at Mo...

Steve,Interesting that you and I hold the ...

Yea, verily. I remember having a discussio...

So Jim's a Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian Ciga...

I like you, Jim. And not because I think you migh...

Steve,

Interesting that you and I hold the ...

Yea, verily.

I remember having a discussio...