I found this man's blog through DailyKos
today. And I'm very disturbed. OTOH, how often do you get to encounter
a Constitutional Law professor who thinks we should allow torture
'cause it's fun?
Why would my humanity be diminished by participating in the killing of a monster (he had sexually abused and then murdered at least about 20 children), or even by deliberately inflicting pain on him? It seems to me that this is the reaction to a natural, understandable, and laudable human impulse to avenge (even if in a ridiculously inadequate way) the abuse and death of so many innocents. Why shouldn't one say that our humanity is diminished if this monster is allowed to live on, or even to die a painless death, when his victims and their families endured unimaginable pain?
I'll tell you why, dumbass. When you go into attack mode, it releases all kinds of nasty chemicals into your bloodstream and rewires your brain. Soldiers who have fought wars overseas have a great deal of trouble leaving those wars behind. Part of them is still primed for violence. It has nothing to do with how much the bad guy deserves it; it is profoundly destructive to the one committing violence.
Oh, and then there's the part about if you figure out later that you ripped the wrong person into little tiny bloody pieces, there's no "oops" and no taking it back.
I can't believe I live in the same country with this prick. He makes that Ward Churchill guy look like Albert Einstein.
