Death Penalty

[Dagnabit]

To me the whole thing is bizarre beyond belief. On one hand you have politicians trying to kill as many convicts as they can because it's good for their career. On the other hand you have families and friends who are publicized if they have serious bloodlust. (If you sensibly say "killing this asshole isn't going to bring back my Joey", you aren't newsworthy.) And then you have the Masses, who just want all this trouble and upset to end. When will it all end?

Well killing all those criminals, even if they are all "guilty", isn't going to make it stop and my guess is it will only encourage more crime. You have a society that exhibits all this bloodlust and then you wonder why there's so much killing apparently going on. (I've never seen anyone killed in my lifetime, how about you?)

Well here's my prediction, if an execution does make it to TV, it will be followed in the next year with a dozen unstable personalities each killing a dozen people so they can become martyrs or famous or simply noticed.

What we have in this society is a branch furiously screaming "stop thinking of pink elephants!" and then become surprised when pink elephants is all anyone can think of. If society can find cause and excuse to kill, it's no small jump for Joe Sixpack with slighly-off brain chemistry.