tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607756684597414964.post1581937903679717550..comments2023-05-06T00:47:08.876-04:00Comments on Danzig U.S.A.: Wendell Berry Makes Public Statement on the Death PenaltyJim Chenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981455878475838042noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607756684597414964.post-39473815582552652672015-12-11T13:24:09.538-05:002015-12-11T13:24:09.538-05:00The consistency of this is mind-blowing. So uncom...The consistency of this is mind-blowing. So uncomplicated. So wise, but simple.<br />Berry is an endorser of The Consistent Life Network, 200 groups that oppose abortion, the death penalty, war, poverty, racial violence and euthanasia.<br />There's something in that to offend everybody and no one does it more articulately that Wendell Berry.Carol Crossednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607756684597414964.post-85481006304177692512014-04-01T02:47:17.483-04:002014-04-01T02:47:17.483-04:00Life is a precious thing, and once you take someon...Life is a precious thing, and once you take someone else's, not in defense of your own, you lose the right to live it as have the victims. If someone were to kill me or someone I loved, I feel their remaining on the earth under any circumstances would be neither fair nor just. There is no brutality in the current form of iv injection, only justice, and however regrettable the act is; it is appropriately cold. While I too find even lawfully approving of murder disturbing, I find it more disturbing imagining an individual who viciously killed you or your wife or your child, is perhaps somewhere enjoying a hot meal, a shower and a jovial conversation with a bored prison guard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607756684597414964.post-9822052867778051332012-01-03T08:20:32.460-05:002012-01-03T08:20:32.460-05:00What's next, are we to object to "legal k...What's next, are we to object to "legal kidnapping" (i.e. imprisonment") because we object to illegal kidnapping? Wendell Berry says a lot of deeply insightful things about economics, but he's a weak ethicist, and I take this quote for sentimental tripe. One might object to the death penalty for various reasons, but if we believe in government authority at all, then we believe the government should do things that individuals shouldn't. Should we object to taxation on the grounds that we don't believe in robbery? Childish thinking.Eric B.noreply@blogger.com