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NoNukes
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Message 312 of 337 (772406)
11-13-2015 1:48 PM
Reply to: Message 310 by Diomedes
11-13-2015 12:43 PM


Re: Jihadi John sleeps with the fishes..
Would be a fitting end to see one of those beheading douchebags get his head lopped off by one of our Predators.
Fitting? Perhaps, but only at the cost of removing all pretense of staking out the moral high ground.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

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NoNukes
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Message 314 of 337 (772471)
11-14-2015 1:58 PM
Reply to: Message 313 by Omnivorous
11-13-2015 3:52 PM


Re: Jihadi John sleeps with the fishes..
t's hard not to feel some sense of rough justice at the death of this particular murderous thug.
Let's acknowledge that when we use drone strikes to kill thugs out in public, that we aren't exactly using a weapon of surgical precision. Now add some head-slicing-off blades to that mix, and perhaps you might see some possibility of exceeding mere payback.
Does that make it any easier to feel something other than justice?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

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NoNukes
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Message 318 of 337 (772496)
11-14-2015 8:24 PM
Reply to: Message 315 by Omnivorous
11-14-2015 7:04 PM


Re: Jihadi John sleeps with the fishes..
I think you misread my tone, NoNukes. I feel a great deal more than that without any help.
Thanks. I apologize for my overly brusque response which was triggered by the initial post more than by yours.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams

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