> Society benefits by preventing assassinations.

Short of having alternative, parallel universes where we
can compare actual results, you cannot prove that assertion
as a generality.

However, short of parallel universes, there is such a thing
as "common sense" as a guideline.

Assassinating Hitler might well have prevented the Holocaust,
because much of the Nazis movement was coalescing around one, particular,
hypnotic, charismatic cult leader. The movement was as dependent on him
as the Church of Scientology would have been dependent on
L. Ron Hubbard.

That is part of the problem, that a wise assassin of conscience
would face. It is *unknowable*, the results of what we do,
much less provable or demonstrable to others. Even *after* the fact.
We cannot analyze history with certainty, much less predict the future.

We live in a world of guesswork and must make Life-and-Death decisions
in a framework of what is essentially guesswork.

Philosophers who come up with rinky-dinky lines of "reasoning" as to
why there are "absolute moral imperatives" are the greatest of fools,
ultimately doing nothing more than to blow trumpets (or maybe beans)
for their own personal, pet value systems.

People get fooled so easily into thinking that there are lines
of reasoning, or values so basic and universal, that all humans are
obligated to acknowledge them. Unfortunately, under scrutiny,
that is arguably never the case.

E.g., some people would say that "preserving Life" is the first
and foremost value. They would use the superficial arguement,
that without Life, we have nothing at all, so anything is better
than "nothing".

Do we really have to buy it? Of course not.
"Give me Liberty, or give me Death". Quality of Life,
mimimal human dignity, trump even the fact of Life itself.

If "God" existed and had inviolable values, He could have
made clear by now, so we would not even be needing to
have this discussion. "God's People" tend to think that the
only reason for disagreement is all the wicked people in the world
who cannot hear God's Word with the clarity that comes from
their own, superior virtue. Any rational person ought to be able
to see that those sorts of people tend to be among the ugliest,
the most free-hating, the least capable of compromise. And generally,
in their little, dirty personal secrets- no more "moral" than anyone else,
financially, ually, or any other way.

Our universe is basically amoral at its heart, whether philosophers
or theologians like that reality, or not. There is no standard of morality
other than what exists in the human brain.

There is such a thing as "legal", really no such thing as "moral".

Morality is opinion. That doesn't necessarily mean that I don't
share some of the same moral values as you, because I have opinions,
too, and do not apologize for having opinions, but at least I do realize
that this is what they really are.

Assassination is guesswork, so follow your best guess.

Our governments assassinate people, why shouldn't people ever
assassinate the worst, closet-fascist, hate-mongering elements of
their own governments? It is only assassins assassinating assassins.

What is legal and what is moral are two different things, particularly
in a land where professional-haters and panders run the government.

Tom Keske


> That's why we have the
> Secret Service, FBI and BATF. To keep gun nuts from popping off
> gummint officials.
>
>> Why do leftards love genocide
>> so much?
>
> Why does the Tim McVeigh wing of the NRA love assassinations so much?
>
>
> Bret Cahill
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