Jung ameriCANs

"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."  

Carl Gustav Jung

Well, I'm just a modern guy.  (Of course I've had it in the ear before.)  So I've got your standard 20th / 21st (as if there's a difference) century slovenly attitude towards good & evil, and am loath to think of people or groups of people as "wicked," no matter how despicable they are.  But--perhaps because of those formative K through 6th grade years spent in Emmanuel Christian Day School, every little once in awhile "it" rears up with me.  I think the death penalty is barbaric, ineffective, & idiotic. But show me a person who has intentionally hurt and / or killed a child and I'm opening the refrigerator & looking for a pat of butter, cause I want to fry that son of a bitch my damn self.  

And reading this Jung quote just made me think, "Why do we panty-waist, whiney-assed liberals allow conservatives to call dibs on the moral high ground?  Well, because things are so complicated, right? Bullshit.  You can make things complicated by focusing on the less important aspects of an issue, but that's an intellectual problem, not a moral one.  So the guy who tortured and killed an innocent child had a hellish childhood?  That's terrible, and my heart sincerely aches for him and I wish it were possible to find justice and spiritual & emotional restitution for him.  But (1) that's not possible &  (2) it's not the most important aspect of this situation.  He tortured & killed a kid.  He either spends the rest of his life in jail or he gets fried.  If the latter, it doesn't matter if the death penalty has no deterrent value. What matters is that THIS son of a bitch will never do it again.  End of story.

I've often wondered how anyone with a semi-functional brain can align themselves with the Republican Party.  But just for now, it seems clear to me: they're tired of Democrats, who seem like complete pussies.  They'd rather be wrong about every single goddamned issue--they'd even rather vote against their own interests --than saddle up and ride with the Pussy Patrol.  Which is really stoopid . . . but understandable.

So come on, liberals.  Wicked is wicked, and it's a contagious disease.  Grow some balls & deal with it.