I am for an eye for an eye...but to see it so out of control and the mocking was so sad...and not so not proper...perhaps it was the act itself...Why am I feeling this way?
2007-01-02 07:19:21 · 14 answers · asked by hatchetmistress 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Just that you know...I lost a loved one that way...i'm not crying for Saddam...the man.., I am just having a hard time dealing with the fact that we are all losing some kind of compassion the lost of human emotion...I thought I was strong, but then again it aint every day you witness a hanging is it...
2007-01-02 11:34:30 · update #1
There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of his own people, yet I still do feel remorse. Some of my relatives were imprisoned by Saddam, yet I still feel bad.
It was sad to see an old man who was 69 years old die by hanging. During the last minute of his life, he was being humiliated and taunted majorly. He began praying, and couldn't finish, because the trapdoor opened and he was hung.
Then everyone is talking and the camera is pointed at Saddams lifeless, dangling face. You see an old man, and you find it hard to imagine that he murdered so many people.
So the reasons I feel bad are:
1. He looked like an elderly man getting hung and condemned to death...he was actually.
2. It was a holy day he was executed on.
3. During the last minute of his life he was humiliated.
4. He started praying, but couldn't finish.
5. Seeing that lifeless human dangling from the rope, noose still around his neck, just feels sad. Especially when you see an old, innocent looking man in that noose.
I always wanted him to get executed for what he's done, but watching the execution just makes you feel bad.
Just try not to feel bad, because this hanging is nothing compared to what he did to the hundreds of thousands of people (which included women, children, and elderly) his regime killed and tortured. I SHALL SHOW NO REMORSE.
A world is a better place without this man.
2007-01-02 12:34:43 · answer #1 · answered by nmagny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The death penalty bring society down to the level of the evil ones it is trying to kill.
December 29: Vatican official says executing Saddam would be wrong: http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5865506&nav=menu83_2
December 30: Vatican spokesman denounces Saddam's execution as 'tragic': http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-12-30-vatican-saddam_x.htm?csp=34
Jesus, John 8:1-11, spares a women guilty of adultery whom the Mosaic Law said should be stoned to death.
If the guilty person's identity and responsibility has been fully determined then non-lethal means to defend and protect the people's safety from the aggressor are more in keeping with the common good and the dignity of the human person.
The Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives.
However in today's modern society, the capability of rendering the offender incapable of doing harm - without definitively taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity are very rare, if not practically non-existent.
With love in Christ.
2007-01-02 16:50:53 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thats good to feel pity for every person, weather he is good or bad. I think u have very emotional mind status bcoz hanging is surely a very sadful event that too on day of eid. Some where saddam was a victim of politics played by bush. All the above factors lead ur mind to think in such a way that u feel sad for him. After all he too was a human being as us.
2007-01-02 07:33:13 · answer #3 · answered by FRIENDS FOREVER 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is human and natural to feel compassion. Your reaction is natural. Saddam's behavior in his life was abnormal.
The mocking and taunting at Saddam's execution is relatively uncivil and unprofessional. It was nothing compared to what Saddam inflicted on others. It was an expression of the extreme suffering Saddam had caused for these people and their families. I find it forgivable.
2007-01-02 07:42:46 · answer #4 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are not the only one feeling this way...if that helps. It made me sad to see so much news coverage about it. Yes, he was horrible and did horrible things and many people were wanting to see him die. I just saw this beaten, defeated old man who was trying to hide his own fear at facing death as he was walked up to that noose. It made me feel sad for all of humanity that we still think that the answer to someone who kills is to kill that person..and then to revel in what is done. I always thought I agreed with cap punishment, but I guess it's different when you see the person actually having the noose placed over his head. I have no love at all for him or anything he stood for. It must be that I'm just tired of seeing death in Iraq.
2007-01-02 07:29:56 · answer #5 · answered by DinahLynne 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You probably wept when Hitler shot himself too.
And I'm sure those who agree with you sobbed all the way through Stalin's funeral, oblivious to the fact that the 20 million he had killed would never again have the opportunity to shed a tear.
And don't forget all those paroxyms of grief following the death of Pol Pot, the Cambodian Communist leader who killed literally one-third of his country's entire population (because we Americans pulled out before our job was done, lest we forget).
Oh yes, with the deaths of Hussein and his ilk, there is indeed much to sob about!
2007-01-02 07:32:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anne Marie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The weird thing is that I felt the same way. I guess that it is because he was not the same strong leader with alot of spunk when he was younger. I could not help but see this old, broken down man. I also think that they should have allowed him a more military execution by firing squad as he requested.
2007-01-02 07:24:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is tragic when a human life is cut short particulary when that person didn't live up to their potential as a human being. I'm not saying that the death penalty isn't warranted sometimes, but it's tragic when a person chooses to be destructive rather than live a productive life. And when they die there is no chance to redeem themselves.
2007-01-02 07:26:27 · answer #8 · answered by RobertaM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps because hanging is such a violent way to die. Death by lethal injection, for example, seems much more humane.
2007-01-02 07:26:27 · answer #9 · answered by Answerman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i asked somewhat of the same question, i feel the same way. he's human like the rest of us, we dont go around just hanging people!
2007-01-02 07:22:36 · answer #10 · answered by puppy love 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋