Re: [B7L] Re: OT world trade centre

Dana Shilling" wrote:

The concepts of "murder" and "punishment" exist in a system of law where everybody gives at least tacit acceptance to the rules, and "deterrence" is at least an arguable purpose. If trying and imprisoning murderers led to widespread recruitment of more murderers, then we'd have to re-think the whole process.

Yes, we would. We would either have to totally surrender control of our lives to anyone willing to use force, in the hope that they then wouldn't murder us. Or we would have to resort to the most extreme uses of pre-emptive force imaginable. The fact that the terrorists are trying to present us with this choice is one of the reasons why they are not merely our enemies, but also evil.

- Jonathan