Killer's Ashes Ordered Out of Cemetery

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: pontifex
this is a very simplistic view, but its kind of funny that a person who is hired to kill people can't be buried there because he killed people.

I find it funny that you don't see the difference, or maybe you do and you're just trolling.

i see the slight difference. one's approved and one's not. still the same thing.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Don't they say that no matter what, you're still a soldier? Or is that the Marines?

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: pontifex
this is a very simplistic view, but its kind of funny that a person who is hired to kill people can't be buried there because he killed people.

Killed and murdered aren't the same things.

Sure it is, the only thing that changes is who you liked better, the people who did the killing, or the people who died.

It's all about perspective.

So they're the same except for the things that makes them different...

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: pontifex
this is a very simplistic view, but its kind of funny that a person who is hired to kill people can't be buried there because he killed people.

Killed and murdered aren't the same things.

No, killing is killing.

And quite frankly, I say that as someone who doesn't hold human life in some religious, "high" regard. Politcally, I am "pro death" (pro war, pro death penalty, pro abortion, etc). I may put it bluntly, but a life is a life, whether it is a human, an elderly woman, a viet cong soldier forced into battle, etc. I have the utmost respect for soliders; my father was in the air force for vietnam, but a soldier is merely a mercenary commissioned by the government...same as the ones they are KILLING.

I realize this is a bit off the topic, but I hate hypocrisay regarding the value of life, and almost everyone does it in some way.




back to my views on the topic, I think it is extremely absurd to remove his already existing remains in this place. Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[lupi]

Should have left him there.

 

[cherrytwist]

Originally posted by: lupi
Should have left him there.

elaborate?

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: cherrytwist

Originally posted by: lupi
Should have left him there.

elaborate?

I'll play devil's advocate.

This man is a war veteran. He fought for YOUR freedom. He risked his life for yours. That is what he did to earn his place at this is cemetary? Who is to bring the rest of his life into play? Who is to say that he wasn't mentally traumatized in the war, causing him to commit his murders?

Frankly, what he did was deplorable, and he deserved to rot in prison, which he did. However, he is was buried in a veterans's cemetary, which he earned through his service, and he should stay there.

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: cherrytwist

Originally posted by: lupi
Should have left him there.

elaborate?

He did his time for the country. Regardless of how much of a piss-ant he may have become later, any schmuck wearing my flag on his shoulder given a rifle and the orders to try and kill them before they kill you deserves to be given what that entails.

As I recall one of the noteable members of the Blackhawk down engagement had legal problems later (rape and other things from memory), and as such his part in the movie was conglamorated with additional actions/details of some other soldiers to create a fictional character to seperate the past and the present being. Ask the others in his squad whom were there with him as they tried everything they could just to see the next day how they feel about him and you may see more forgiveness than the general public.