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Re: Saddam Sentenced to Death
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This one can be pretty easily explained : there's a marked difference between a soldier on the battlefield and a prisoner. Between soldiers there's an agreement, both sides are trying their hardest to kill the other, hence when one does kill the other it's considered fair game. When a soldier surrenders he is no longer part of that agreement, and hence must be treated differently. He has not ceased to be your enemy, and hence imprisonment is 'fair game' but killing him is no longer an option.
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I see what you mean, but do you really want your tax dollars supporting his ass in prison? Killing is killing either way. I see no moral difference between killing someone on the field and killing someone under the law. It's killing.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
- George Orwell, 1984
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