Or see what you think about this, robomatic....

If my daughter was ever on the receiving end of criminal violence, I would want the perpetrators to be dealt with rationally, in the cold light of day, and NOT according to whatever crazy, churned up emotions I would be feeling after such an event. I know that if I were ever in that state I would be unfit to take an objective view. For the same reason I am relieved that the Lockerbie victim-relatives are not making the decisions about Megrahi, whether his conviction is sound or not. But that should not be read as meaning I am dismissive of their losses.

It's easy enough to say this stuff,of course, and no doubt I might regret having said it if I were ever put to a Lockerbie-type test. But for me that is the difference between justice and the lynch mob. What is remarkable about the British victim-relatives (all the ones we have heard from anyway) is that they took a measured view of the criminal enquiry and Megrahi's fate at the very time they might reasonably have been having to cope with all manner of crazy, churned up emotions. But as has been stated here several times, they will have a better chance of finding some kind of peace than those who remain consumed by bitterness, and for whom no amount of revenge will ever be enough.