Motivated by thoughts of sitting next to Jesus

This is an odd direction to go with this but one of the reasons I do not believe in the death penalty is redemption and another reason is two wrongs do not make a right. I believe that there are those criminals who really should be permanently removed from society via incarceration but not from the planet at least by the hand of justice. One of the arguments I have heard is "...how would you feel if someone killed or brutalized a loved one?". Well, if that happened I would want retribution but that is precisely why I as the aggrieved should not decide the punishment. Pain will cause the best of us to do things far beyond what we ever could imagine. In some cases, going beyond results in saving a life, our own or someone else's. In other cases, we may exact a suitable revenge.

In some ways, I pretend to follow moral relativity but in reality most issues of morality are clear cut. Lying even to spare someone's feelings feels wrong but so does hurting someone's feelings. I believe that infidelity is wrong even in a "loveless" or probably more appropriate broken beyond repair marriage or relationship. I think killing is wrong. I think as humans our core knows it is wrong even when "justified". I cannot imagine taking the life of another however, I do fear being angry enough to do so. I feel that if my family were threatened I might be possible of such things and just that thought alone scares me. I admire strength in all its forms will, body, mind, etc. I love displays of strength. I like to watch strongest man competitions on ESPN or bodybuilding or weight lifting. I rarely satisfied with my own physical strength I like to push myself. I do not admire the strength or will to kill. I think for average humans it takes a lot to kill but I think it can take even more to spare or save someone. I am drawn to superheroes more because they have the will to act and put themselves in harm's way for the sake others far more than their superhuman abilities.