Here's the thing.
It's not that I don't care about the death penalty, and it's not that I'm too lazy to debate about it in class, like we will be doing next week. It's not that I'm just too bored with it to form an opinion. Actually, I've formed a strong opinion, and I really do care deeply about it.
I'm dreading this assignment because I feel that my significance in the world is not enough to make my strong opinion matter. I feel almost wrong being the one to decide how it should be.
This is not a decision regarding school uniforms or tomorrow's cafeteria choices. These are human lives - not just those of the criminals in question, but those of the innocent who could be punished needlessly as a result of my anti-death-penalty opinion being put into action. This is a question of justice on an immeasurable scale. I can't say what the best thing is...but really, can anybody?
Who are we to make that call?
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Coming to terms with the fact that what we think very often doesn't matter is a lesson most never learn.
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