scott peterson ...

i guess i am the type of man who thinks that giving someone the death penalty should be a very sombre and difficult decision. and i think it was for the jurors who decided to recomend the judge do so with yesterday's verdict.

but i find myself so dissapointed with the reactions i have been seeing on television. people seem so glad that a third person is going to die in this horrible and tragic story.

i have been saying the whole time that i don't care. murders happen, and it's really a shame, but i just don't think it's national news, nor do i think it is more important than the war this government is waging across the world.

it's that when i see these kinds of reactions, i start to wonder how much the two are related. are people this interested in seeing dying, and this disinterested in preventing loss of life on a grand scale? this has to be the problem with america ... or at least half of it.

it seems like this whole nation is glad to see people they don't know or don't like die, but at the same time, the same people are living in constant fear of their own deaths. is it too much to ask for a little consistency?

i would like to see all the people who either A) don't oppose the war on terror or B) are glad that peterson will most likely get the death penalty go out and put their own lives on the line for what they believe in. now that's what i would call a role model.

just, please, don't live high on the benefits of this society without taking some of the responsibility that goes with it hand-in-hand.

oh ... whatever. i don't know what the fuck i am talking about. i just get frustrated by this pathetic view of death and our society.