What is the moral course

Jeffrey Fisher jfisher at igc.org
Fri Sep 14 15:09:03 PDT 2001



> Yoshie, let's face it. The Palestinian yahoos that blow themselves in the
> public places in Israel are nothing more than pathetic explosive streakers
> that cause relatively little damage. Add to it expertise and coordination
> - and you will get the WTC on a sunny Tuesday morning. Do you really doubt
> that killing the brains behind the WTC operation could have saved 5,000
> lives? In that context, stepping on someone's civil rights and due process
> is a small price to pay, indeed,
>
> wojtek
>

i'm loathe, in my ignorant folly, to create another false dichotomy on this list, but . . . at what point is "stepping on someone's civil rights and due process" too high a price to pay? 2,000 dead? 2 dead? perhaps none dead, but threats? looking mean? please clarify. or perhaps someone with the proper calculus can enlighten us.

or we can kill them all and let god sort them out using His Due Process. now *that's* a calculus.



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