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Originally Posted by steeljack
Sorry Cyfr. but one thing is wrong with your equation ......murder is the unlawfull killing of someone , execution is the state sanctioned (ergo..lawfull) killing of someone .
question ...in your opinion were the sentences at the Nuremberg trials justified ? are the perpetrators of the Liberia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur genocides any less guilty than those executed in 46 and 47  or is it "ok" to execute war criminals responsible for multiple deaths but wrong execute the Yorkshire ripper ?......where do you draw the line ?  I'm sure both the Black Panther's and Adolf Eichman's mothers both thought they were both good boys as much as Tony Blair's and George Bush's mothers think of theirs. |
It would be unlawful for the state to kill somebody at the moment, hence my wording, but lets not argue semantics.
No the sentences at the Nuremberg trials are not justified. I simply don't believe taking another persons life is right. We have no more right to kill somebody than they had to persecute the Jews. We're just as bad as them if we PLAN to kill somebody, its not an act of last resort defence, its planned taking of somebody's life. They should have got life in jail, life meaning life.