Assassination - Re: What is the moral course

Dennis dperrin13 at mediaone.net
Thu Sep 13 20:45:44 PDT 2001



> I've always seen the international norms against assassination as a
leaders
> cartel, allowing them to send 18-year olds off to die, while being able to
> comfortably shake hands with their counterparts at the armistice. Far
> better if every leader knew that war meant that his own life would be the
> primary head on the block.
>
> -- Nathan Newman

But it depends on who has the means to make it happen, and is this based on political righteousness or bottom-line ruthlessness? There was a commercial that came out toward the end of the Vietnam War. It showed two old white men in boxing gear -- trunks, gloves, the works -- and they lazily tried to kill each other in the ring. The audio tag was something along the lines of, "If the leaders had to fight, there would be no wars." Nice in its own way -- and utterly not of this planet at this or any foreseeable time.

DP



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