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The other day I saw a political cartoon. In the first frame a mob of angry people jeer at a pair of dangling feet. The caption reads "the Medieval Ages". In the second frame, the crowd remains, and instead of just seeing the feet dangling, we see the feet dangling on a website that reads "Youtube." The caption reads "the Modern Ages."
The cartoon was about the execution of Saddam and how so many people went nuts (including a majority of my friends and teachers) to watch.
Was anyone else a bit disgusted? Saddam's death was supposed to be a nonpublic event, and but when one video leaks hardly a person respects it, instead desiring to see a real man dying.
This raised a few questions in my mind.
1. Did Saddam deserve death? And if so, was his execution method appropriate?
2. Did Saddam deserve more than death for what he did to others? (torture, for example)
3. Do people have a right to break a law, even if they were not the original commiters, to see the execution for themselves? What does this speak about so called "civilized" humanity?
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*I belive the cartoon was from USA today, and I'm not sure I got the captions right, but I still gave the general idea.
The cartoon was about the execution of Saddam and how so many people went nuts (including a majority of my friends and teachers) to watch.
Was anyone else a bit disgusted? Saddam's death was supposed to be a nonpublic event, and but when one video leaks hardly a person respects it, instead desiring to see a real man dying.
This raised a few questions in my mind.
1. Did Saddam deserve death? And if so, was his execution method appropriate?
2. Did Saddam deserve more than death for what he did to others? (torture, for example)
3. Do people have a right to break a law, even if they were not the original commiters, to see the execution for themselves? What does this speak about so called "civilized" humanity?
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*I belive the cartoon was from USA today, and I'm not sure I got the captions right, but I still gave the general idea.