> Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you explain away the Olympic killings? Or the Rome airport slayings? > Or the drowining by throwing overboard of a crippled old man in a wheelchair. > > Freedom fighting? I don't think so. Pure terrorist.
We all agree that Arafat is a terrorist, that he's dead, and that there should be peace. QED. Academically though ... Aren't these arbitrary definitions? In WWII weren't there all kinds of things like this? In Vietnam what about Mai Lai (not a formal policy though - understood)? And we weren't even fighting for our own land then. All of these things are wrong and should be uniformly condemned, but it seems somewhat convenient to point the finger at others when we're guilty of the same stuff. For example, I've heard people say on this list that if anyone ever harmed their family they would stop at nothing to hunt them down and kill them. It seems like the same thing to me. It's easy to take the moral highground when its not your family that's being killed. So let's ask this question: would a mother crazed with grief, who kills a random Israeli, that she feels is just as guilty as any other Israeli, be guilty of Murder 1 or Murder 2 or innocent due to insanity? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:135714 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
