Just Asking...
Talk about conflicted. The majority of Canadians support the abolishing of Capital Punishment. We abhor taking a human life. And we have no wish for our government, on our behalf, to mete out the kind of justice that would destroy a life, as a symbol of society's unwillingness to allow the perpetrator of viciously violent crimes against other humans to see the rigidly unforgiving disciplinary hand of justice.
Yet, within most of us there is a little voice that says, "but", and "except".
For there are those within society, the psychopathic scum whose inability to feel any kind of human compassion for others, or self-restraint, or responsibility toward society, or love for themselves or anyone else, leads them to unforgivably destructive acts of depravity. They are a breed apart.
Apart from those within society whose emotions and passions carry them to a place no one in their right mind would want to be. Atrocious as it is for someone to murder another person as an act of uncontrolled passion, that person may not have actually planned to kill, and does not deserve to die. No one 'deserves' death.
And then there are those who inflict pain and suffering on others quite deliberately, taking pleasure in the act of tormenting those whom they mean to destroy. Such atrocities, particularly when they are repeated time and again, in the work of psychotic serial killers leave one with the indelible impression that to save the life of that particular predator has no real meaning.
Do those people really deserve to live? They would, if circumstances permitted, merely go on to continue their predatory forays within society, selecting victims to service their hunger to kill. Ruthless, heartless murderers whose purpose in life is to satisfy their horrible egos by giving themselves the dreadful power and the dreaded authority to sacrifice lives to give themselves satisfaction.
We have enough such monsters in our prisons. Meet another one. Mario Cyr, on parole after, in the process of robbing a a 87-year-old woman, beating her so badly she never recovered, and died despite acute medical care in hospital. He was never charged with her death. While on parole he killed two men.
The man is a murderer, a drug dealer, a robber. He has no personal nor social conscience.
He began his career as a thief in 1975. In 1976, driving a car with police in pursuit he lost control of the vehicle and his accomplice died in the crash. Two years later he had beaten the 87-year-old based on information she had money in her home. She was found semi-conscious, badly beaten, suffering severe head injuries.
In 1984 on parole, he shot a drug dealer whom he had threatened with death if he didn't divulge where his money was kept; the dealer obliged, was killed regardless. Two months after that he waited for a man he was feuding with, crashed his car into the man's, and as the victim ran for his life, he was shot twice, mortally.
Mr. Cyr denies all charges brought against him, of second- and first-degree murder. Even in prison he has been busy trafficking drugs. Monsters like him litter the prison system. What value is his life to himself, let alone to society? What measure of tolerance is enough? How is it that someone as degraded as Clifford Olson feels entitled to old-age payments?
Just asking.
Yet, within most of us there is a little voice that says, "but", and "except".
For there are those within society, the psychopathic scum whose inability to feel any kind of human compassion for others, or self-restraint, or responsibility toward society, or love for themselves or anyone else, leads them to unforgivably destructive acts of depravity. They are a breed apart.
Apart from those within society whose emotions and passions carry them to a place no one in their right mind would want to be. Atrocious as it is for someone to murder another person as an act of uncontrolled passion, that person may not have actually planned to kill, and does not deserve to die. No one 'deserves' death.
And then there are those who inflict pain and suffering on others quite deliberately, taking pleasure in the act of tormenting those whom they mean to destroy. Such atrocities, particularly when they are repeated time and again, in the work of psychotic serial killers leave one with the indelible impression that to save the life of that particular predator has no real meaning.
Do those people really deserve to live? They would, if circumstances permitted, merely go on to continue their predatory forays within society, selecting victims to service their hunger to kill. Ruthless, heartless murderers whose purpose in life is to satisfy their horrible egos by giving themselves the dreadful power and the dreaded authority to sacrifice lives to give themselves satisfaction.
We have enough such monsters in our prisons. Meet another one. Mario Cyr, on parole after, in the process of robbing a a 87-year-old woman, beating her so badly she never recovered, and died despite acute medical care in hospital. He was never charged with her death. While on parole he killed two men.
The man is a murderer, a drug dealer, a robber. He has no personal nor social conscience.
He began his career as a thief in 1975. In 1976, driving a car with police in pursuit he lost control of the vehicle and his accomplice died in the crash. Two years later he had beaten the 87-year-old based on information she had money in her home. She was found semi-conscious, badly beaten, suffering severe head injuries.
In 1984 on parole, he shot a drug dealer whom he had threatened with death if he didn't divulge where his money was kept; the dealer obliged, was killed regardless. Two months after that he waited for a man he was feuding with, crashed his car into the man's, and as the victim ran for his life, he was shot twice, mortally.
Mr. Cyr denies all charges brought against him, of second- and first-degree murder. Even in prison he has been busy trafficking drugs. Monsters like him litter the prison system. What value is his life to himself, let alone to society? What measure of tolerance is enough? How is it that someone as degraded as Clifford Olson feels entitled to old-age payments?
Just asking.
Labels: Canada, Human Fallibility, Human Relations, Justice
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