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[mburbank]

"My only regret is we didn't get a better camera man."

Forgive me for being dense, but why, exactly? You enjoyed seeing the execution enough to make it your user pic.

I agree the world is better without him in it. I'm glad he's gone, just as I'd be glad for every brutal dictator to be gone.

But if you enjoy it, if it gives you some sort of thrill (and public executions of the innocent and the guilty have long been used as a form of entertaiment) I think that you suffer from the same sort of blood lust that motivates our enemies. To a lesser degree, surely, but it's the same mental disorder. We good guys usually need the assurance that the person we make suffer is really, really bad before we can actually get off on their suffering, which means we're still better than Sadaam and his ilk, who only needed to feel people were in the way to enjoy (one assumes) their suffering.

Sometimes (and I think very, very rarely) people need to die. But does it ever need to be entertainment?

I'm pretty anti-death penalty, but that's not what I'm trying to communicate here. Different people have different thoughts and feelings about that. I guess I think if your inclined to dance on anyone's grave, I think somewhere inside you you have a jones to celebrate suffering, and this is a way you can do it and not realize you're a dick.