You're leaving out the third option: that it sometimes works, but is not morally justified anyway. Murder for hire works. That does not mean it is morally justified.
--- On Fri, 4/24/09, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
>
> To say that it "works" sometimes means that you believe
> that sometimes, as Colbert said the other night, the ends
> justify the screams. You can't take the position that
> "it works sometimes" and not be firmly in the camp of Cheney
> and Yoo. Since you tried to disclaim this earlier, I
> can only presume that you don't, at heart, want to be in
> that camp. So: snap out of it!
>