I think people can be deranged by hate, but I don't really think that most of the people who are suicide bombers are acting while having been drugged, or somehow not in possession of all of their faculties. In fact, that never occurred to me until you mentioned it.
So, if people are being doped up and sent out to kill themselves while in a drug-induced delusion, would shooting them except to stop the detonation of the bomb be less acceptable? And how would you know?
Or is what you suggest something like the Patti Hearst defense, of someone who has been brainwashed by a cult? Why does it work for a rich American girl and not a poor Palestinian boy? Just asking, since you brought it up.
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I was replying to your "just suppose".
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- Top US Marine General: 'It's Fun To Shoot People'
- Another war quote from a future military commander
- Sounds like the "Bill Belichick" of the USMC (n/t)
- More people who it would be really great to see shot...
- As with Abu Ghraib, etc., great hearts and minds stuff. Now if a Muslim said it - - -
- Notice the word "some" has a tendency to drop out of the quote. (n/t)
- So it OK to say it's fun to shoot "some" people?? (n/t)
- Yes. Then we know who is working for us.
- re: So it OK to say it's fun to shoot "some" people??
- This is one of those "shared moral values" (n/t)
- So it OK to say it's fun to shoot "some" people?? (n/t)
- Read "Born Fighting, The History of the Scots Irish"
- He likes his job.
