Carrie's Response

I have very mixed feelings about Keith's response. I am a huge animal lover and decided on not being a vet becuase i could NEVER put an animal to sleep even if it was best for them so i completely agree with what he says about people who torture animals. I worked at an animal rescue for a summer and people do some really messed up things to dogs. We had a dog come in that had its tail cut off by the owner and we've had dogs come in that peed anytime we came close to them out of fear. So i think its really unfair that people don't get as harsh of punishments for that as they do if you hit a car and drive away (it happened to my mom the other day.) I don't understand why people think that they are higher than any other thing on this planet, animals have feelings too.

the part that i have mixed feelings on is asking who is the government for having the right to give someone the death penalty. put yourself in the position where someone, heaven forbide, someone killed a member of your family or someone close to you. the death penalty hardly ever comes into play unless it was premeditated and you, as a family member, are going to want their ass in jail no matter how peaceful of a person you are. I heard on the radio one day that a family, who was grieving the lose of their son to a drunk driver, only wanted the other driver to pay one dollar to the family everyday for the rest of their life. this would make them think about what they did every morning. i thought that was creative.