Taking care of love LO20821

Winfried Dressler (winfried.dressler@voith.de)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:45:22 +0100

I have something hard to struggle with today.

The german Walter le Grand has been killed in an official gas chamber of
the US today. It was a conscious, collective decision of the high court in
Washington representing the attitude toward justice of the US citizens -
despite the intervention of many, many political and other officials
including the international court in den Haag. It was said that the hurt
feeling of le Grands victims have priority.

Does it help to regain love burried unter the hurt done by a criminals
murder, when you know the murderer is dead? How could the conscious,
collective killing of a murderer help the victims feelings? I don't want
to start a discussion on the ethics of death sentences. But I have to
state that my taking care of love got cracks. Knowing what happened hurt
my feelings. What can I do?

In the thread "It hurts!" I learnt that only a loving answer is able to
brake the circle of hurting. Whatever happens to me - I would never agree
that a criminal is killed therefore. The only way I can think of in order
to take care of my love is to try to understand and to find a way to
forgive.

What about the following campaign: Find one victim of a murderer sentenced
to death who would cry out loudly that it would hurt him/her additionally
if more killing takes place and that all s/he needs is some help in
learning to forgive. Wouldn't this be able to create the precedent, which
the courts seem to be so much afraid of today, but that could brake the
circle of hurt in an authentic, loving way?

I will not give up to end with:

Liebe Gruesse,

Winfried

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