~ ‘have you seen the news about timothy mcveigh’s execution?’
   ‘i’m familiar with it; could you be more specific?’
   ‘well, all the hotel rooms in town are booked and people are selling t-shirts and american flags for the execution.’

   ‘it reminds one of what they used to do in the south, after lynching a black man for some reason or other…selling body parts and lining up for photos with the corpse hanging…’
   ‘doesn’t it make you sad that regular people could so easily get excited about someone being executed?’
   ‘no…because they’re the sick fucks who need to be worrying…anyone who wants to watch someone executed or somehow derives pleasure from just being in the town where it happens has more problems in the than mr. mcveigh could be supposed to have. we can’t worry about the issues these people must carry; we can only scorn them from our positions of moral superiority.’

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