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Re: Some other perspectives on the tragedy
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Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:56:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Stanley writes:
> The limiting of the response limits the cost of committing these acts
> acceptable. Make the cost unacceptable, and the people willing to commit
> them will decrease, either through their own choices, or by the choices of
> their neighbors who don't feel so good about hiding them anymore.
Okay. But what part of the fact that they are willing to die for their
cause didn't you get? Did you have some other worse punishment in mind?
Tuesday's events were not brought on by a few moments passion -- but rather
by the dreadful premeditation of weeks, perhaps months. What kind of person
could do this kind of thing? Someone without hope. Someone who thinks
their back is against the wall. Someone who feels loveless. Someone
absolutely willing to die for the sake of the others around them. Someone
willing to make such a sacrifice even if it all comes to nothing. Someone
who will exchange their life for the sake of making the gesture, or even
just trying to do so. And this someone was not alone, they were legion. The
acts of Tuesday were not committed by a single deranged madman, they were
executed in concert by a class of persons somewhere in the world -- and are
they ever pissed off! Mind you, I am not justifying them -- I am trying to
understand them. I am trying to think of what it would take to make me want
to do the same things...
These hideous acts were committed by your brothers and my sisters. And if
they are willing to die for their cause, I think it's only humane to assume
they have a reason for doing so.
Basically, I think this cost/benefit approach is weak simply because they
are apparently willing to pay the price in full while they take it out of us
at the same time.
-- Richard
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| (...) I get that. I wonder how willing they are for their friends and family to die as a result of their despicable acts? (...) I don't care about understanding them. I care about making the people who train them, the people who house them, the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The limiting of the response limits the cost of committing these acts acceptable. Make the cost unacceptable, and the people willing to commit them will decrease, either through their own choices, or by the choices of their neighbors who don't (...) (23 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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