Congress should take note. Can Congress claim that it has no free will? I hope our lawmakers watched the program and decided to end the abomination of gridlock and the lack of medical care. Hubris!
Shakespeare granted the release of death as the greatest boon to both homicidal heroes and villains. Hamlet, Oedipus and Walt all lived in worlds "rotten." The deserts of New Mexico have much in common with Hamlet's Denmark.
"To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all." Walt had few options at the end. He asks his adveraries to end his life.
Not all villains could be punished by no punishment. The Iagos and Richard IIIs delight in escape. Could fitting punishment depend more on the nature of the criminal, than on the crime? For some criminals, capital punishment is devoutly to be wished. For Dante, divine punishment was necessary for the operation of a divine Universe.
Do we, in the modern world, including our leaders, suffer even more because the possibility of punishment often seems remote?
Sophocles heard it long ago upon the Agean.. the turbid eb and flow of human misery.
Walt- you are now in the company of the greats. We will miss you.
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