re: #119 Teukka

Death is a luxury which I think it is ill advised to afford these assholes. Also, expect long trial with writhing defendants at ICC, these astroturfed insurgents have not exactly been GC compliant (e.g. perfidy, killings of civilians, etc).

Intellectually I agree with you. I am opposed to capital punishment, for many reasons, not least of which is that I am not a killer, and supporting capital punishment makes me one. It makes me no better than those I would condemn.

But beneath my intellectualism and morality there is a bit of primal blood lust that wants to kill the bastards. String them up. Make them suffer as they made other people suffer. My people. Eye for an eye.

Civilization is about subsuming those urges for revenge, and I do. But I’m not a saint, and they’re still there, down in the depths of my primitive soul. I can understand when others, closer to the situation, do not. Would I have strung up Mussolini myself? No. But I think I understand why those who did so did.