Assassination - Re: What is the moral course

[Dennis]

> To suggest that conterfactuals are difficult to assess is true enough,
> although the question of "what if" (which is hardly a political science
> abstraction) is a necessary one if we are to learn from past mistakes.  To
> refer to an 18 year-old undergraduate as an "academic" is bizarre.
>
> -- Luke

I didn't know you were 18; I merely saw the umich tag and, given your prose,
took the next step. As for the "what if" school of political thinking, yes,
speculation and alternate models do have their place. But given the current
grim conditions, I'm not really interested in playing such games.

DP