This is a quote from The West Wing, I think I like this idea.
STUDENT
Do you favor the death penalty?
JOSH
No.
STUDENT
But you think we should kill these people?
JOSH
You don't have the choices in a war that you do in a jury room. But I - I - I wish... wish we didn't have to. I think death is too simple.
STUDENT
What would do instead?
JOSH
I'd put 'em in a small cell, and make them watch home movies of the birthdays and baptisms and weddings of every single person they killed, over and over, every day, for the rest of their lives. [clears his throat] And then they'd get punched in the mouth every night at bedtime. By a different person, every night. There'd be a long list of volunteers, but that's all right. |