Overheard in a Charity Shop…

One of the stupidest grounds for defending capital punishment has to be the oft-quoted rationale of “a life for a life.” I overheard one old geezer arguing for the death penalty to another on exactly this basis in the local Salvation Army store while I was rumaging for bargains. Now I’ve heard this quote plenty of times before, but maybe because of my currently reduced mental capacity it stuck with me and the more I thought about it, the more it became a completely moronic thing to say. If I kill someone and am then executed, well then surely someone is then going to be actively responsible for taking my life, which makes them a candidate for having their lives terminated by the logic of “a life for a life”, and so on, and so on…where does it stop?  No, if you are going to kill someone, it has to be because God told you to or has given you permission.