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“His insistence on standing up for the priest was probably more related to a misguided belief that he could be reformed, and that with a scolding he might fall in line”

I will never understand this notion, which appears to ignore entirely the concept of justice (which I never hear preached about) or how punishment itself may be medicinal to the guilty, but it baffles me all the more when it is applied to a murderer.

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