Several letters to the editor recently, “They should not be living among us,” “More should be killed … ,” shock me and prompt me to reply. How can anyone condone and applaud the violent death of someone else? Isn’t that the exact thing we’re putting people in prison for?
With true Nazi mentality, it is suggested that “sick” individuals be “rounded up and taken to some remote area and shot.” How sick is that? Maybe if we turn our prisons into concentration camps and build ovens to extinguish the “sick,” we could do it on a wholesale scale. We wouldn’t have to worry about them being turned loose too soon and committing more crimes.
If we think and act like this, what are we doing to ourselves? How are we any better than the worst perpetrator? Who becomes victim and who becomes perpetrator? Violence, brutality and dehumanization are not the traits of civilized society. We diminish ourselves as a people when we allow any segment of our society to be treated as subhuman, no matter how we try to justify it.
Willie Robinson
Lake Stevens
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