Originally Posted by: heknowsnothingI don't really have deep political thoughts like most of you but if you ask me, Saddam was executed for executing others, does that make us any better?

He deserved to be in prison for the rest of his life behind bars, execution is the easy way out for him....

I don't know - that sounds like a pretty solid thought to me. I agree with you to a point. The Iraqi's sentencing him to death and then carrying it out does not make them any better than Saddam theoretically. All murder is wrong. Passion killings, depraved indifference, negligent homicide, war, executions. It's all wrong. Agreed.

Sadly, the world we inhabit does not always operate on right and wrong. Justice is the ultimate gray area. What's justice to one is murder to another. What is genocide to one is ethnic cleansing to another. What is killing innocent animals to one is simply feeding ourselves to another.

In a perfect world, there would be no need for capital punishment. In a perfect world, the world does not spawn evil. It's an ugly, ugly thing sometimes. We little carbon based bi-peds do the best we can with what we've got.