Jesus, Mother Fuckers and Death Penalty.
Killing people is an exciting subject, I was reading Ares's post "Death: Is it ours to take?" and that make me write my own post. Please read Ares's blog first - that is a very analytical post.
Capital punishment is always a crowd pleaser and entertaining event. We used to drag the subject around the city with drums and horns and large crowd stop their daily work and gather to watch the exciting event. They talk about it afterward. Nowadays we do the same thing with Newspapers and Television. We simply like to kill people who do not follow our values - we may execute them, we may bomb them, we may fly them in to buildings. No matter how we do it, at the end of the day humans get excited by killing other humans.
Some times back China had a policy of sending a bill to the surviving family for the cost of the bullet used to kill their loved ones. Now china has mobile death bus shuttle from town to town. America keeps juveniles in death row until they grow in to legal age. We Sri Lankans are lucky not to practice capital punishment. Even though Sri Lanka pretends to be a Buddhist country, we reactivated the death penalty couple of years back.
Capital punishment perfectly fulfill 5 Buddhist conditions of 'evil act of killing'
1) a living being
2) knowledge or awareness it is a living being
3) intention of killing
4) effort to kill, and
5) consequent death
Ares's post ask an question "If your family was hacked to death by someone, will you not want that person to suffer the same fate?". Well. We are talking about a mother fucker right here. So let's assume for a minute it is alright to hang a mother fucker... But can we prove every time we are killing the correct offender? Answer is NO. With DNS evidence, significant number of people in American death row were able to prove they are innocence. Now compare US government and Sri Lankan government. Do you honestly thinks same people who can't operate a CTB bus or balance a budget or deliver a mail, should take life and death decisions?
Now here is the paradox. If we wrongly execute one innocent human, we all deserve capital punishment for wrongly taking a life of another person. There are large number of proven wrong executions in USA. So why not they kill who have funded, backed and take those wrong decisions. How it is possible to wrongly kill someone and not get killed for it, if you are wearing a black coat, but not if you are wearing a black t-shirt?
Anyway, I don't think personal pain justify killing a human. Yes. We should eliminate those mother fuckers who rape and hack people to death. We have a place call Jail for it. We may even get scientists or doctors to figure out what is wrong with them in the future and fix those loosen nuts in their heads.
There are no evil people in this world, only people who have done evil act. Prabkaran a good father; Gandhi is not, Hitler known to be a vegetarian, world worst serial-killer becomes a Buddhist monk, Virginia Tech Killer a Bullied Autistic. We don't even treat for autism in our schools.
Death Penalty is just another way to get to gather and kill a human. We don't get any exclusive productive output form that except illusion of control and and satisfaction of revenge.
We execute people for any reasons - for killing other people, use of drugs without prescription, adultery, theft, not only that, we even execute people for not believing in Jesus. Oh! Jesus? We executed him too!
Capital punishment is always a crowd pleaser and entertaining event. We used to drag the subject around the city with drums and horns and large crowd stop their daily work and gather to watch the exciting event. They talk about it afterward. Nowadays we do the same thing with Newspapers and Television. We simply like to kill people who do not follow our values - we may execute them, we may bomb them, we may fly them in to buildings. No matter how we do it, at the end of the day humans get excited by killing other humans.
Some times back China had a policy of sending a bill to the surviving family for the cost of the bullet used to kill their loved ones. Now china has mobile death bus shuttle from town to town. America keeps juveniles in death row until they grow in to legal age. We Sri Lankans are lucky not to practice capital punishment. Even though Sri Lanka pretends to be a Buddhist country, we reactivated the death penalty couple of years back.
Capital punishment perfectly fulfill 5 Buddhist conditions of 'evil act of killing'
1) a living being
2) knowledge or awareness it is a living being
3) intention of killing
4) effort to kill, and
5) consequent death
Ares's post ask an question "If your family was hacked to death by someone, will you not want that person to suffer the same fate?". Well. We are talking about a mother fucker right here. So let's assume for a minute it is alright to hang a mother fucker... But can we prove every time we are killing the correct offender? Answer is NO. With DNS evidence, significant number of people in American death row were able to prove they are innocence. Now compare US government and Sri Lankan government. Do you honestly thinks same people who can't operate a CTB bus or balance a budget or deliver a mail, should take life and death decisions?
Now here is the paradox. If we wrongly execute one innocent human, we all deserve capital punishment for wrongly taking a life of another person. There are large number of proven wrong executions in USA. So why not they kill who have funded, backed and take those wrong decisions. How it is possible to wrongly kill someone and not get killed for it, if you are wearing a black coat, but not if you are wearing a black t-shirt?
Anyway, I don't think personal pain justify killing a human. Yes. We should eliminate those mother fuckers who rape and hack people to death. We have a place call Jail for it. We may even get scientists or doctors to figure out what is wrong with them in the future and fix those loosen nuts in their heads.
There are no evil people in this world, only people who have done evil act. Prabkaran a good father; Gandhi is not, Hitler known to be a vegetarian, world worst serial-killer becomes a Buddhist monk, Virginia Tech Killer a Bullied Autistic. We don't even treat for autism in our schools.
Death Penalty is just another way to get to gather and kill a human. We don't get any exclusive productive output form that except illusion of control and and satisfaction of revenge.
We execute people for any reasons - for killing other people, use of drugs without prescription, adultery, theft, not only that, we even execute people for not believing in Jesus. Oh! Jesus? We executed him too!
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8:59 PM
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