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canetoad

(20,875 posts) Tue Dec 22, 2020, 04:08 AM Dec 2020

Are you a country devoid of mercy and forgiveness? [View all]

Like most of DU, I'm not religious. What is the point of Michael Cohen spending more time in jail? An eye for an eye?

The US should grind to a halt in protest of the final frenzy of federal executions.

You've lost your soul and become an angry and vengeful society. That needs to be reversed.

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Are you a country devoid of mercy and forgiveness? [View all] canetoad Dec 2020 OP

Americans think that forgiveness means exoneration for the perpetrator. LSFL Dec 2020 #1

Locked up forever. canetoad Dec 2020 #2

I agree completely with you LSFL Dec 2020 #6

I think this sort of broad brush does nobody any good, My Pet Orangutan Dec 2020 #3

It's a product of a society consumed by making and spending money and... KY_EnviroGuy Dec 2020 #4

There's a lot of good/productive people in this country we call The U.S. of A. It's unfortunate abqtommy Dec 2020 #5

Forgiveness can only follow repentance. Chainfire Dec 2020 #7

As a cop abolitionist and prison abolitionist, I hear you. A better way is possible. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2020 #8

So where do you live? Australia, I gather. Why group us all together like that? Towlie Dec 2020 #9