I wonder if anyone else is feeling this way? I consider myself to be pro-life under all circumstances, including the death penalty. Since yesterday morning, however, I’ve found myself sincerely wishing death upon the people responsible for the death, pain, fear and consternation caused by the terrorist strikes. I should be a bigger person than this. Maybe I’ve just been fooling myself, enjoying feeling morally superior to those who disagreed with my position. I know it’s hypocritical of me to feel this way. I know now that the self-righteous attitudes I’ve had when debating abortion, the death penalty, etc., have been just that: the arguments of a self-righteous asshole with no perception of how I might react if the situation actually involved me personally. As they say, ignorance has been bliss.
I’ve always expected to grow more liberal and mellow with age, but it appears I was wrong. To put it mildly, I feel like smoking someone’s ass. And I don’t like it.