Maybe this guy does deserve to die. Maybe he doesn't. That's not our call. Maybe this guy thought the other guy on the bus deserved to die. Maybe he
thought it was mercy. Maybe he made a post on a forum days before doing it saying how important mercy killings were.
See this kind of thinking is just ludacrous. Really.
The victim was a COMPLETE stranger. an innocent bystander. He was not crippled, not in a persistent vegetative state, was not going around smacking
girls buttocks or pulling down their blouses. He was minding his own business, sitting in his seat, listening to music.
If I were to sit next to you one day, and then just stab you as you were reading your newspaper, I am at least 99.9% sure you are going to take it
personally whether I am bi-polar, schizofrenic, or whatever else.
Now if I took your life, obviously you wont be able to speak for yourself will you? Its one thing to decide on the Capital punishment or not, but now
the man is begging to be killed himself. If he is clearly in pain alive, and yes that means mental and emotional pain, not just physical, than we
should take it upon ourselves as a civlized society to give him the mercy he is requesting and put him down.
Itd be one thing if it was a grandmother with diabeties begging to die, sure I suppose you could give her counseling and find out why and try to help
her. But this guy is a murderer, and not a pretty killer either. God gave us our free will so that we may perhaps be able to govern our civilizations
appropriately, and smite evil wherever it may manifest itself.
Maybe an evil demon possessed the guy and now his true self is begging to die. I dont see it that way. My judgement comes soley based on the laws of
our societies, which are based on the laws of God at least in part.
whatever God may be, This has nothing to do with faith. Its simply law. when there is a negative entity spreading pain and suffering in our midst, we
have to take it upon ourselves to remove it with quickness and efficiency. If that is unfortunately a person, then we terminate him/her in the the
most merciful of ways. At present in this day in age, that would be a single bullet to the back of the head.