A sentiment by a class member. One echoed by people all over the country.
It's the sort of thing that floods my brain with so much cortisol that it can take years off my life. It's the sort of thing that makes me want to throw a chair across the room, smash things up, drop whoever said it into a truly unjust society. Somewhere where there is no real justice system, no 2000 years of trial and error. I ask this, how can a society that accepts murder as one of the highest crimes possible then go on to murder as punishment? An eye for an eye?
When a society adopts this kind of an attitude it becomes a norm. A value that is normal to those who grow up around it. The population becomes hardened to everyday murder. Is that what we want? Where does this lead?
Remember violence begets violence.
We know this.
Its an old lesson.....
