At Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:30:23 PST, you wrote:
>
>>Each one of those
>>dead people had irreplaceable faces, families and lives. The only >way
>the
>>families of the slaughtered could have received some semblance of
>>proportionality, if not recompense, for their massive individual and
>>collective
>>loss would have been for McVeigh to have been cloned 168 times, and
>>then for
>>them all to be executed together.
>
>Vengeance killings or "an eye for an eye" don't bring back the original
>people who died. Also, vengence killings are not acceptable
>in the true Christian spirit of "thou shalt not kill".
>McVeigh was obviously deranged. How simplistic to even consider that
>"proportionality" or "recompense" for the massive individual and
>collective loss would be cloning and executing en masse.
>If this theory is to be followed, perhaps one should think back to all
>who lost their lives in the Vietnam War and visualise thousands of US
>soldiers who killed innocent civilians also cloned and executed - but I
>doubt that this would ease anyones' burden of grief.
>GS
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I posted that response as a way of illuminating the fact that some crimes are so
massive and monstrous that for them there can be no recompense. Whatever is done, the
scales can never be balanced. Nothing can bring their dead beloved back.
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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