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kitchenwitch
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« on: April 11, 2001, 10:18:42 am » |
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One thing that bears mentioning is that Timothy McVeigh himself is in favor of having his execution televised.
I think that a televised execution made available to the American public, by pay-per-view, webcast or network broadcast, painful or not, will only serve to make an unconscionably evil person into a martyr among the fringe element of society that he once belonged to (militia groups and fanatics), and will only serve to further belittle the value of human life in our society.
What makes us human is our ability to reason and make moral choices. Televised violence (and yes, that does include "painless" death) only serves to desensitize all of us, especially children and adolescents, to death and killing, and will serve no good whatsoever.
Just my humble opinion,
Kitchen Witch
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