I'm Rather Shocked...

to discover that serveral people I know agree with the death penalty. This world is scarier than I thought. It is not just America that has this blot on the landscape - there is potential for it, even in the country, given the right circumstances.

This all adds to the situation already developing in this land, where the government is clamping down, and making morality part of its bussiness. I think that protection and creation of oportunity, and providing services are the job of the government - not moralising, and not monitoring our every action. Of course, they take the stand that it is necessary to protect us - but I wonder how much it kills us in the process.

This is not to say I don't believe in morality - quite the opposite. In fact I think that the government must try to maintain its own morallity in the laws it creates (ie. by not doing things which are wrong, such as killing people). All I am saying is that it is not a job for the government (who, being human, like the rest of us, are not really the ideal people to decide on this) to impose morallity on us. No, I think that this is much better in the hands of a perfect judge, which we find in god, and, a merciful forgiving judge, which we find in this same place.

right, I think that is the end of my rant. - Of course no-one will read this anyway, but hey, never mind, my thoughts are here if anyone wants them.