Word: wrongdoers
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...like a deadly virus that has been isolated in an attempt to prevent its spread. What caused this man to become the personification of cruelty? We owe humanity this study. Killing Saddam would not only rob us of a specimen but also reduce our behavior to that of the wrongdoer. Evil would triumph. It is not easy to deny ourselves the rush of pleasure, the momentary feeling of having won (which an act of revenge provides), but it's time for the good guys to show the bad guys how to behave. Gretchen Nielsen Tucson...
...like a deadly virus that has been isolated in an attempt to prevent its spread. What caused this man to become the personification of cruelty? We owe humanity this study. Killing Saddam would not only rob us of a specimen but also reduce our behavior to that of the wrongdoer. Evil would triumph. It is not easy to deny ourselves the rush of pleasure, the feeling of having won (which an act of revenge provides), but it's time for the good guys to show the bad guys how to behave. GRETCHEN NIELSEN Tucson, Ariz...
...okay to develop calculated loopholes to traditional restrictions. And it is a silent nod of approval for a conception of the death penalty as an end in itself and as the cornerstone of a warped moral framework in which justice remains undone so long as the wrongdoer breathes...
...Westlake has operated a kind of literary halfway house for the morally rotten, propping up an entire repertory company of safecrackers, bank robbers, funny-money artists and miscellaneous boodlers after their inevitable job-related mishaps and sending them forth to steal again in novel after novel. His best-known wrongdoer is an amusing burglar named Dortmunder, whose fumble-thumbed approach to grand larceny is that of a tax accountant trying to bolt together a backyard barbecue. The unstated, slyly effective joke of the Dortmunder series (The Hot Rock; What's the Worst That Could Happen?) is that everyone...
...face of adversity and who looked forward to a life-time of service to the community as a physician. There would be demands that justice be served on the criminal who ended it all. Instead, Tadesse is spoken of with pity--a victim to be memorialized rather than a wrongdoer to be punished...