Timothy always talks about unconditional regards, and I guess that's it.
She helps him, listens to him, understands him, comforts him, it doesn't matter what kind of person he is, even if he is a murderer or a terrorist, he is still a person with feelings, a family, a family worth people.
Timothy also said that many things in this world are not "either or", and I think that's it.
She is a nun, a clergyman for good. She is against deprivation of life, legal or illegal. She respects the worth of every human being - even though others have pushed her into a situation of either or as if she is no longer entitled to pray for the victim if she chooses to pray for the murderer. But she is not facing "choice", she is facing a living person. A helpless and desperate dying man who gave her all his trust. Pray for him, not on the side of the criminals, but on the side of the weak. No matter what he did, facing death alone, they were all just as weak. This is her value, and she firmly believes that she has not violated it.
She had no choice, and perhaps she hadn't really considered any other options. From the time she wrote back to him and drove to see him, they established a bond, a bond that couldn't be given up, a bond that was unconditional. Just like a mother and a son, no matter how bad he is or what kind of crime he has committed, he is a son, a son who makes his mother worry and cry. She loves the world like a god, and gives him courage and strength to face his cowardice, accept his own darkness, bear his own responsibilities, repent of his sins, and step into the embrace of God with a worthy love.
But she couldn't speak. She can't tell her value to parents who have lost their children. Forgiveness and benevolence are actually a kind of reason. An inopportune and powerless rationality in the face of grief. Yes, every one of your beloved God's people is going to accompany a murderer to his death, and who will pray for our children when they are lying in the wilderness? Violence is the simplest and most reasonable emotion. In the face of evil, it is always difficult for us to insist that everyone has the same value, not increased or decreased by any exterior or behavior. Respecting an abuser does not mean diminishing the same respect for those he has hurt. They are all human beings, in essence, there is no difference and no contradiction.
The girl's mother said her brother had opposed the death penalty until the girl's body was seen. In the face of grief, reason has no meaning. On a macro level, however, without rationality, the world will only become more chaotic — which is why juries need to do background checks to prevent past experiences from leading to emotional, unfair judgments. We understand people who support the death penalty in the face of the murder of a loved one, but this also means that their support is not based on reason, but only on personal feelings.
Punishment is only one of the purposes of the death penalty; punishment itself is prevention—if it does not bring back the dead back in time. But can harsh punishments really reduce crime rates? The so-called harmony, is it punishment and suppression from the top down, or peace and tranquility from the bottom up? If the incentives and desires for crime cannot be fundamentally eliminated, is punishment after the fact really more useful? To destroy evil, is it to eradicate the evil body, or to transform the evil mind? Perhaps only the unconditional love and respect of the nuns can change the evil heart and destroy the evil without committing another murder. This change in human nature is the foundation of peace.
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