Comic books can make for philosophical dilemmas

Soon I will be INVINCIBLE.
I heard of this book tonight, and the idea or premise is that having superior intelligence in a world that does not value it is a superhighway right to super-villainy.  (It’s a “graphic novel”, recall.)
If I wasn’t a few days from a new semester in grad school, I’dve bought this novel already.  It’s getting some great reviews and discussion.
I wonder if I’m smart enough to be a super-villain?

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Christendom and the death penalty

Titus One Nine has found a Reuters article examing us in the Lone Star State and our use of the death penalty.  Read it.  Then, consider:
As an article of faith, and in the name of ”life”, I am supposed to oppose the death penalty.  Yet, I have seen time and again where released thugs commit rape and murder and other mayhem post – release.  I simply have not belief that anything other than a grave will secure society from these thugs.
The life sentence?  I fail to see the point, as a mandated replacement for the D.P.   What’s the purpose in holding  people so long that they get acclaimated to prison as “home”?   I know that such people do not lose their desire to be “out”, but do they [...]

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