I Wouldn’t Touch That With a Ten Foot Pole
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Not eluding to a particular crime or punishment, but to a disbelieve in Acts of Free Will deserving?
You either believe in free will, or you don’t.
Now I’ll go where I fear to dread. Belief in free will is ultimately tied to our belief that God is Almighty, All: Knowing, Merciful and Just.
An admission against interest. Or a view that criminal conduct should not be deterred by answering it with punishment or contained by incapacitation.
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NB: Italy has a proportionately small prison population (about 58,000), in part due to low crime rates and in part due to the unserious and maladroit way occidental countries approach criminal justice &c.
Any answer I might give would be (at least) a near occasion of sin.
I will hope that he merely means that “there, but for the grace of God, go I”. If he doesn’t, … this would not be the first of his …troubled..statements.