I was listening to the radio this morning. The talk show host was Michael Jackson (not the singer). He is against the Death penalty. He said something like the following, "In this era, there are too many people killing people they don't even know" or something like that. He was, in part, refering to Timothy McVeigh. Anyway, his logic is that the Death penalty condones killing and so this has a negative effect. Overall, his logic may be correct. There is one thing, however, that I wish to disagree with. It's the part about "in this era". What is he talking about? It seems that in all eras people are always killing each other. Is it really so much worse today than it was 50 years, 100 years, or 2000 years ago. I tend to think not. (See June 18 for a response to this digression.)