[veronica]

I can't speak for you, but we as Americans, Christian and Jew, are taught to value life very deeply. We value "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." That ethos is taught to us at our mother's knee, as it were.

Nevertheless, some people prove they are too evil to be given the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", as they have denied it to so many others, often brutally, with no remorse or regard to the humanity of those they have brutalized.

Such people we must deal with coldly and severely. That's just the way it is.

[militant2]

That's well stated! One of the primary reasons that America is in the pickle it is, from both a domestic and a foreign standpoint, is our unwillingness to recognize evil for what it is and, further, to deal with it in the most extreme manner.

Extreme actions require extreme consequenses. You don't rehabilitate evil, nor do we, as some would have us believe, reinforce evil actions by implementing proper consequenses.

I am a pro-life Christian...but it is never a values conflict for me when it comes to the extermination of truely evil people who would as soon kill you or your family as to look at you.

Militant