>Each one of those
>dead people had irreplaceable faces, families and lives. The only >way
the
>families of the slaughtered could have received some semblance of
>proportionality, if not recompense, for their massive individual and
>collective
>loss would have been for McVeigh to have been cloned 168 times, and
>then for
>them all to be executed together.
Vengeance killings or "an eye for an eye" don't bring back the original
people who died. Also, vengence killings are not acceptable
in the true Christian spirit of "thou shalt not kill".
McVeigh was obviously deranged. How simplistic to even consider that
"proportionality" or "recompense" for the massive individual and
collective loss would be cloning and executing en masse.
If this theory is to be followed, perhaps one should think back to all
who lost their lives in the Vietnam War and visualise thousands of US
soldiers who killed innocent civilians also cloned and executed - but I
doubt that this would ease anyones' burden of grief.
GS
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