Our lives at risk

I disagree with my government on a number of things. Some of them I cannot begin to justify or see the value in their actions at all.

The issues that stick in my mind above all are fathered by capital punishment. It is not a solution for justice to anyone. It does not deter murder or atrocities against mankind. War is an atrocity: planned murder on a mass scale.

Capital punishment always is another…murder — a homicide that is planned and sometimes celebrated. How can that ever be a deterrence? The only deterrence for killing is not killing. There are other options for eliminating vermin. There are ways we can isolate and maintain control of threats. We cannot redeem our pain and suffering as victims. Does capital punishment help that? How does perpetuating killing make us feel better?

Every life has a right to live, and in those lives lies the salvation and hopes for the better life, growth, and even to the extension of our collective human life to include our personal joys and pleasures.

If capital punishment helps at all, would it be as gratifying as knowing that you are not a killer or a partner in taking life? Taking a life deprives humanity of that individual’s gifts or purpose to help us live. Could our accomplishments possibly have been increased or enhanced if so many humans have not been murdered? Is War “mass capital punishment”? Is War a cruel and inhumane game played by effete and selfish men that never ever was good for all ? Surely, it is without any worth except to remind of us of how stupid and heartless we can be . How many innocent victims die simply because we accept killing?

We must resolve to support and even cherish all life with a clear emphasis on human life at every opportunity because it is our life that we are …..saving