Currently Playing Cookin By Miles Davis My funny Valentine see related

i sent an email out a week ago with this question.... maybe u can give me an answer too...

what is justice? if you had the chance to kill a man you know for a fact has
murdered and raped children, would you do it? And if you chose to kill him
would it be justice or would it be murder? how is it any different if you pull
the trigger than if he was convicted and sent to the electric chair? How can
we figure out what is just? And how do we know when to use justice and when to use mercy?

Currently Reading What Are People For? By Wendell Berry see related

Okay many people have asked me if i had an online journal or xanga. I once had one in high school and thought that in the end having an online journal was not for me. I find that i end up writing only when i'm depressed or sad, not when i'm happy or just to update about my daily life. It made me sound like a very unhappy and sad person. I will try again and this time i'm rarely going to write about the events of my day. Instead i will write my thoughts and questions that i think through out the day as i walk around or from my reading or from interactions with people. We'll see where this goes and hopefully maybe some where out there people will be able to understand me a bit more.

Right now i'm reading What Are People For? by Wendell Berry. Its a collection of essays that he wrote over the years. I think his essays are very though provoking and you really ought to read "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine." its a great essay...i'm not quite done with it yet...but it made me look at feminism in a whole different light (i'm not a feminist though). here's a quote from another essay...

The purpose of education has been to prepare people to "take their places" in an industrial society, the assumption being that all small economic units are obsolete. And the superstition of educaiton assumes that this "place in society" is "up." "Up" is the directiono from small to big. Education is the way up...Of course, it is preposterous to suppose that character could be cultivated by any sort of public program. Persons of character are not public products. They are made by local cultures, local responsibilities. That we have so few such person does not suggest that we ought to start character worships in schools. It does suggest that "up" may be the wrong direction.

-"A Remarkable Man" by Wendall Berry

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