Reply #30: I credit the movie Batman Begins for my anti death penalty stance. [View All]

[rep the dems]

Rachel: What you're talking about isn't justice, it's revenge.
Bruce: Well sometimes they're the same thing.
Rachel: No, they never are.

It's true. Just killing a person after they've committed a crime isn't the way to deal with it. I remember after Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death seeing a bunch of people whose loved ones died in the bombings cheering and celebrating. At the time, it seemed logical to me, but when I think of it today I realize none of those people really feel any better knowing he's dead. All that happened was the government did to him the same thing he did to others and think they made the world a better place. It's really quite sad.