Higher courts where true justice prevails

"I have come to oppose the death penalty. As a Catholic, I believe in the sanctity of life and would therefore refrain from carrying out a death sentence the same as I would an abortion."

While in some regards, I respect this as an attempt at moral logical consistency, the failure of the parallel is this: no unborn has ever proved to be an irredeemable sociopath too dangerous to be allowed to live, as far as I know.

We need to improve our standards of justice, but I don't think mortal society is wrong to send certain cases to the higher courts where true justice prevails.

But I'm not a Catholic nor a Fundamentalist, and while the climate of the times means I don't talk about it much, I also believe there are instances when the grievous choice of abortion may be the wisest course (and I mean 'dire threat to the mother and liitle chance if mother or baby surviving very earlist stages' type of hard material-life realities, not the wanton, egregious slaughter of healthy babies for 'birth control'), but I add that only to emphasize there are utterly different processes of reasoning involved in these different, unrelated instances of killing.

Would you end the life of your fellow on the battlefield, obviously mortally wounded, screaming in anguish, begging for death? Talk about tough choices!

Would you keep alive great gramma's body when she psychically flatlined long ago and her soul is already up there saying, gross, pull the plug, already? Yeah, I know that's tough, too, because we can only infer from brain activity, but the body is not the person.

Would you respect the 'sanctity' of the life of some armed thug about to maliciously murder you, if you were cornered? Or if you'll turn the other cheek to that, how about if the thug is threatening your family or other innocents? My understanding is if its in your power, you don't shoot to disarm or disable a severe threat; you make sure the thug gets no second chance at you.

These are the toughest choices; there is no one easy doctrine that covers every case. Life is precious, but not divine, or my miscarried grandchild would be school age today. Sometimes dealing with life means dealing death, by God. May mercy always guide us.

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Woo. My tl;dr du jour. New one surely up. Siiigh