(MORALITY AND ETHICS [continued(3)])[19th April 1987]

[Redbook3:206][19870419:1050](MORALITY AND ETHICS [continued(3)])[19th April 1987]

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It is clear from the last note* that (as with previous attempts to deal with execution**) the Union/Separation polarity does not give answers that are themselves completely clear – but this may be because they do not fit with my own ideas on what is a very complex subject. That does not make the answers wrong!

I have explained** administrative justification for execution, given that Death itself appears to be morally neutral. Administrative justifications are not easy to fit into the Union-Separation morality. It is certainly not sufficient to say that preservation of the Union, Unity, public Order, Harmony etc. in the State justify execution. Yet this is a motivation. It is not so much 'of the Distraction' as 'of the Outer Circle': which is closer to the Separation than is mere Distraction*** (I think I am working towards a redefinition of terms)****. Love, on the other hand, is the first of the Qualities of the Inner Circle – which is closer to the Union (or Singularity) than is the Outer Circle (though still part of the Separation).

*[See last previous entry.]

**See [[Redbook3:84-85][19870331:1825h]{Capital Punishment [continued]}[31^st March 1987]]p.84-5.

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****(See above [=?].)

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