{"id":44463,"date":"2013-05-20T00:41:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T07:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=44463"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:14:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T06:14:49","slug":"the-death-penalty-as-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/05\/the-death-penalty-as-euthanasia.html","title":{"rendered":"The Death Penalty as Euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div>\n<p>As I have noted previously, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mark-shea.com\/dpmvlar.html%E2%80%8E\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">there is the actual teaching of the Church on the death penalty, and then there are two basic ways of trying to distort and ignore it<\/a>.\u00a0 Progressives try to say that the DP is just as immoral as abortion.\u00a0 Meanwhile, reactionaries try lots of different strategies to blow off the Church\u2019s teaching and plead for death penalty maximalism.\u00a0 In the course of doing so, they make lots of incredibly bad arguments (see the link).\u00a0 However, at the time I wrote the above, I had not run across this particular\u00a0embarrassing act of intellectual prostitution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A lot of jails and prisons in the US are barbaric.\u00a0 Death would be\u00a0 preferred by just about anyone entering them.\u00a0 These liberals think they\u00a0 have a clean conscience but the murder, gang rape and other acts of savagery\u00a0 against inmates is something I could never sentence anyone to.\u00a0 I would\u00a0 have no problem sentencing a first degree murderer to death at all.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u00a0 would never want to be responsible for knowing a prisoner would face grave acts\u00a0 of torture, humiliation, rape\u00a0 murdered or even sentenced to a life as a sex\u00a0 slave. If this is Catholic Mercy, you can keep it.\u00a0 I prefer Catholic\u00a0 Justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of post -->Wow.\u00a0 Fascinating to watch allegedly \u201cprolife\u201d Catholics now resorting to the language\u00a0 of <em>mercy killing<\/em> in order to defy the Church\u2019s teaching on the death penalty.\u00a0 The notion of making prisons safer rather than putting prisoners\u00a0 to death doesn\u2019t even enter the mental universe of this commenter.\u00a0 Now we are to believe\u00a0 that killing prisoners is not vengeance or defiance of the Church\u2019s teaching,\u00a0 but just an expression of tender mercy for lives unworthy of life.\u00a0 Why\u00a0not just use the German term \u201clebens unwertes leben\u201d?\u00a0 And\u00a0 if \u201cprolife\u201d people are going to start trotting out <em>that<\/em> language, why stop with prisoners\u00a0 who have miserable lives?\u00a0 There are a lot of miserable people our culture\u00a0wants to kill in order to 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