{"id":4869,"date":"2011-09-22T12:01:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T12:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2011-09-22T12:01:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T12:01:17","slug":"how-to-be-against-the-death-penalty-and-keep-the-kids-off-the-lawn-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/how-to-be-against-the-death-penalty-and-keep-the-kids-off-the-lawn-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be against the death penalty and keep the kids off the lawn at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People need to realize it is natural to <em>want<\/em> someone to die for a horrible deed they have done, just like it is natural to <em>want<\/em> to Rule the World or to get a Pony, but then also live with the fact that you <em>don&#8217;t get<\/em> the pony, world domination, or to snuff out a life because that life frightens or annoys you.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally one might avoid the hateful emotion to begin with, but without the appropriate affective pathologies in place, or years of training, that&#8217;s rather difficult.<\/p>\n<p>I often think of what Mike Dukakis should have said when asked what he would do if Kitty was raped and murdered by Willie Horton.  He should have said &#8220;I&#8217;d want to kill the guy.  But long before I had the chance the Criminal Justice System would kick in and there&#8217;d be due process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>________________<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ruth Gaul Schleissmann for suggesting I change &#8220;OK&#8221; to &#8220;natural&#8221; &#8230; a natural substitution that is quite OK. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People need to realize it is natural to want someone to die for a horrible deed they have done, just like it is natural to want to Rule the World or to get a Pony, but then also live with the fact that you don&#8217;t get the pony, world domination, or to snuff out a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/how-to-be-against-the-death-penalty-and-keep-the-kids-off-the-lawn-at-the-same-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to be against the death penalty and keep the kids off the lawn at the same time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[881,282],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1gx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}