justice for Peterson=torture?? [View All]

At work today I listened in awe as my co-workers fully described all the torture they wished to be inflicted on Scott Peterson. It was disturbing, I am talking TORTURE...describing ripping off fingernails one by one, sodomizing with broomsticks and burying him alive. These people did not know him and weren't directly affected by his actions...they are also very devout RW christians and I felt a chill thinking they could harbor such perverse desire to inflict suffering...if they are capable of such thoughts for someone they don't know....well it's not much of a jump to see them tolerating human rights violations of people who are made to seem a threat to them. Just something to think about. I personally did not follow the case so I won't make judgement on Peterson, but I do feel compassion when anyone is treated as nonhuman...I feel the same compassion for Lacey but I cannot know if he was guilty or not. People should never be dehumanized in my opinion. No good can come of it, or of a society that condones it. Please note, I am not saying all christians are like this..just pointing out the disconnect between these individuals' worship of a loving God vs. their desire to inflict suffering on a fellow human being.