Bob CollinsAriel Castro is dead and after thinking it over for a few hours this morning, I came to the conclusion that caring about that fact only adds to the misery he wrought on humanity.
But that conflict is playing itself out in the news today. Erin Gloria Ryan, writing on Jezebel (warning: strong language) considers her own stages of reaction to the news, once she heard it on NPR this morning:
Looking for strength and positivity in the death of a rapist and murderer is a fool’s errand, and at the other end of these ugly thoughts we arrive in an uneasy ethical purgatory. There’s no “right” or “wrong” way to feel about the suicide of heinous human garbage.
Be frustrated. Be angry. Be happy. Be gleeful. Be sad. But, like it or not, Ariel Castro’s time on earth has expired, and now, all we can do is focus on who is left, and take solace in the fact that his victims no longer must suffer the indignity of sharing a planet and species with Ariel Castro.
