But Dom
>
>p.s. I consider murder committed for rational purposes and in cold blood to
>be marginally preferable to the "crime of passion" which is impelled by
>sentiment and unreasoning lust. If you're going to do awful things, you
>should do them for intelligent reasons.
Is committing state-sanctioned murder, especially with the possibility that
'we' might have the wrong person (this has happened many times recently in
Canada, & it is only because Canada no longer has the death penalty that
these innocent people were finally released from their wrongful
imprisonment), doing this awful thing 'for intelligent reasons'?
I would call it an example of that irrational reason Colin was talking
about... (which is another reason 'Dubya' is pretty frightening...)
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
It's all in books, save the best part; God knows
where that is: I found it once, wasn't looking
John Thompson
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