I Won't Pretend to Know What This Is

Irony is a Dead Scene Excerpt

It does not come from the moral scheme that we have developed for ourselves. It is not rooted in any religious tradition. It is out of fear that we reject so strongly capital punishment. If one person can be so easily put to death, then what is to stop the mob from turning on us? All animals are inherently obsessed with self preservation and humans follow this same mold. The only difference between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom is that we are cursed with the ability to think. Humans have the crutch of the conscious. Humans gave themselves the image of God as to set them above the rest of the animals, as if the Creator sits up at night fawning over them. Out of this mess, this twisted creation of consciousness and self preservation, is pulled this fear masked with benevolence, paraded around as good will toward others. Every effort, every endeavor, in fields such as the death penalty, both for and against, is nothing but vanity. Deterrence and retribution are by products, side effects, of this same fear trying to justify itself. It is this reason that allows people to sit at home and watch a man get murdered on live action news while remarking that he got what was coming to him, and still be horrified enough to write their congressman when a convicted rapist murderer is sentenced to death by the courts. Humans are cursed with moral sense, hung like a lead weight around the neck, dragging them to the bottom of the river of fear.