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Monday, 6 November 06 :: ethics

i've seen this headline: hussein sentenced to death by hanging a lot over the last few days. i'll have to admit, and it should be no surprise, that my reaction has been one of sickness and sadness. every time i see it i feel sorry for the man. i feel sorry that he ended up where he did and he has to die the death he has to die.

i don't think its right. i don't think that the death penalty is ever right. i don't think that anyone can judge the actions of another to the point that the judgment is a life and death one.

and it points out power imbalances of who gets to commit a crime and who doesn't. who gets away with things, and who doesn't.

i get triggered by hypocrisy of power. those that have power get away with things that they would never ever let someone not in power get away with. it sickens me, it revolts me. i see it every day, on the news and in my life. this is not a just world, and those who want to believe otherwise are just lying to themselves. but i understand the lies people tell themselves, i do on a regular basis, because if i didn't i'd just go down in flames.

posted by brooke at November 6, 2006 12:32 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.