[Jack Jones]

I don’t agree that an execution won’t make the world a better place. There is a small percent of the population who are downright evil. From what I’ve heard about Tookie, if he was not evil, then few have ever been. He killed multiple times and then joked with his gangbangers about the way one of them gurgled as he drew his last breath. Good riddance to Tookie! My only regret is that he wasn’t done in 22 years ago. Better yet, in a perfect world, the All Mighty would have taken him just before he managed to do his first evil deed.

But the world isn’t perfect. Unfortunately, both karma and justice work after the fact, if at all, and if you believe there is either. On the one hand, I’d like to see all the incorrigible done away with before they get to the point of no return. On the other, and here is the rub, I can’t think of whom or what body should condemn them. History is packed with times when evil sat in judgment.

The crux of the matter is what should be done about evil. Let’s face it! We are stuck with it. Execution is evil. But it may be a necessary evil because we can’t have thugs going around shooting people just to watch them die. Abortion is evil. But it may be a necessary evil because we can’t have unwanted children living mistreated lives. Terrorism is evil. But some see it as freedom fighting. The war on terror is evil. But some see it as the only means for survival.

So, I have no problem with evil. It has existed since man changed the physical reality of natural selection to the metaphysical reality of selection by choice. Tookie chose to perpetrate an unnecessary evil. Society chose to carry out the necessary response.