Norse thread

...you know the Norwegians are a great people. what they are going to do with Brevik is to build a jail for him, manned, and one hopes, womaned by people who know him. i was astounded. but the more i thought about it, such a horrendous crime can't simply be punished, it has to be rooted out of the individual himself, the devil not punished, but changed at his core so he is no longer malevolent, so he becomes grateful, discards hate for love and understanding which mollify. from a twisted plant grow by the light of forgiveness past understanding and bring a tear to that dry cheek on which no water falls. it is an extraordinary punishment for an extraordinary slaughter of their own, by their own. they have decided to fight for his soul rather than dismiss him the way we would in America because we're so busy with gadjet/catch(E)=caqui(N)=approve, listen, obey, notify, comment, explain. it rings a bell we believe in human quotient, and in mankind, that we don't take an eye for an eye, but make it see.