Saddam to die...but at whose hands and at what cost?
posted November 5, 2006 - 2:57pm
No man has the right to decide who lives or dies. I, being a Buddhist, firmly believe this. While Saddam took this right for himself and abused it I still do not feel that anyone has the right to take his life.
Two wrongs don't make anything right do they?
You can claim he deserves to die because he killed so many people. But then will you be the one to put the noose around his neck and pull the lever? Will you stand idly by as he twitches and sturggles for breath?
Could you live with yourself after that? Remember, you would be no different from him after that act. You would have killed, just like he did. The reason for killing does not make it right, the fact is you would still have done it.
Is this Justice? I think not. The families of all those people will not magically get their loved-ones back. No wonderful miracle will occur at his death. The spirits of those dearly departed will not shoot forth from Saddam as he expires and become reality again.
By killing this man others have been lowered to his same level. By believing that it is right, you also lower yourself. Perhaps not quite to his level, but pretty damn close.
You cannot condone killing on one hand and then on the other denounce it. You would then be a hypocrit.
I agree he should not have killed those people. He should not have done a lot of things. But I also think he should not be killed. Incarcerated? Yes. Given special privilege? No. Made comfortable for the rest of his days? Absolutely not, but he should not be tortured either. He should be severely restricted in his daily life and made to wear the heavy chains of regret.
This has nothing to do with any set of political beliefs I have, this is purely a question of what is right and wrong. So don't bother calling me a bleeding-heart liberal or a mouthpiece of any party or political school of thought or anything like that.
Killing is wrong, plain and simple. Killing someone for killing someone else just perpetuates a vicious and neverending cycle of killing.

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