My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We should not forget the principles of Christian mercy and justice: to welcome back those who are repentant and need our assistance, while encouraging the faithful to endure to the end.
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.
Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.
I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.
We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
There is a list of things I'm not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.