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The Tree of Knowledge
Truth is fit enough for prose/It tells use everything it knows
But knowledge is its own disguise/Using truth to tell us lies.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
The Death Reward
The Death Reward
From criminal law, we know the death penalty as a deterrent to crime and the ultimate punishment given only to those who deserve it. But from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp we have discovered something new: the Death Reward.
According to the New York Times, various prisoners at the Camp want to confess and be executed now so they can reap the rewards of martyrdom.
So for one person execution is a punishment, for another a reward. Execution deters one, and allures another. More evidence that the death penalty is really simply maddness.
From criminal law, we know the death penalty as a deterrent to crime and the ultimate punishment given only to those who deserve it. But from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp we have discovered something new: the Death Reward.According to the New York Times, various prisoners at the Camp want to confess and be executed now so they can reap the rewards of martyrdom.
So for one person execution is a punishment, for another a reward. Execution deters one, and allures another. More evidence that the death penalty is really simply maddness.
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