Apparently I still have some spiritual development to do...

[devohoneybee]

The first reaction I had when learning that Ariel Castro, the Cincinnati man who kidnapped and tortured three women for ten years, had killed himself in prison?

"Oh, good."

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[adonnchaid]

I think many of us had that thought. And I know it's not charitable or kind to whatever family he had, but he was an evil, unrepentant man.

[devilc]

What you said.

And I think that it speaks volumes that his brothers when on air and talked about how they felt he did it because he always had to be in control -- not as an act of shame or repentance -- and that they felt relieved he was gone.

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That said, I do hold with what John Donne said in Meditation 17 "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

It's just I think that some deaths diminish us less than others.

[dragonfly]

Word. Saved Ohio some money, too.

[dragonfly]

Yes, well, we probably need to work on that. I'm sure not expecting to get to where I can feel sorrow at that kind of news, but at least to not feel joy would be a spiritual victory.

[devohoneybee]

I don't think it was joy? Something closer to relief or a sense of justice...

[dragonfly]

*nods*

Me, too.