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In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which i am absolutely certain: if i were to be murdered i would not want my murderer executed. i would not want my death avenged. especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

-Helen Prejean

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In Sorting Out My Feelings And Beliefs,

Helen Prejean

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which i am absolutely certain: if i were to be murdered i would not want my murderer executed. i would not want my death avenged. especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

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The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.

Jesus-murdered. martin luther king-murdered. gandhi-murdered. malcolm x-murdered. reagan-wounded.

Someone's killed 100,000 people. we're almost going, "well done! you killed 100,000 people? you must get up very early in the morning! i can't even get down the gym. your diary must look odd: 'get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.

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