(July 7, 2015 at 8:26 am)Nope Wrote: Intellectually, I do not believe in the death penalty but there is a dark place in me that understands the need to hurt someone who has hurt me. I don't like that part of my personality but it is there.
No doubt there are other dark places buried in your mind. Intellect keeps them buried, where they belong. That's what makes us different than the lower animals. That's what gives us the right to call ourselves, "civilized." We recognize when our own base emotions are undesirable and we master them with intellect.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein