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- Subject: Re: Assasination
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.155141.15019@husc3.harvard.edu>
- From: zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Date: 22 Aug 92 15:51:40 EDT
- References: <1992Aug19.181238.14909@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Aug20.010305.17888@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1192@kepler1.rentec.com>
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- In article <1192@kepler1.rentec.com>
- andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug20.010305.17888@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- >feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld) writes:
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- MF:
- >>In short: why not let the good guys win one for once?
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- AM:
- >You mean like James Earl Ray?
-
- In view of all I have said on this subject so far, you should be able
- to understand that this is a specious example.
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- AM:
- >Assasination is not high on my list of persuasive arguments to present in
- >a court of justice. Are we not now treated to the 'justifications' of the
- >Chinese regime for their Tienanmen murders? Given that China could very well
- >end up economically worse than the former USSR, and with starvation a much
- >closer danger, is there not an argument that the democracy movement _had_ to
- >be extinguished for the sake of millions of lives? Surely this is something
- >to worry about when we consider killing Saddam Hussein for the sake of the
- >Shiites, Kuwaitis and Kurds.
-
- The democracy movement was extinguished for the sake of the _raison
- d'Etat_; in this discussion we ought to concern ourselves with the
- force of the opposite justification.
-
- >Later,
- >Andrew Mullhaut
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Nous donnons la mort, nous saurons la subir."
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-