Morally Acceptable?

With reference to the question in the OP, is this morally acceptable?

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#76
#76
JZVOL said:
Why should I have to pay for a murderer to live?
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Honestly all the death row people combined probably don't cost you more than a few pennies. I'd be more concerned about the hundreds of thousands locked up for petty drug crimes.

Personally, I'd rather get lethal injection than live the remaining 60 years of my life in prison.

I think that the death penalty is a morally appropriate punishment, I just don't like the idea of giving government power over life and death.
 
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#78
#78
Killing him was the only way to do this, IMO. He was killed, and everyone can celebrate, get closure, etc, and then they can move on. You capture him, and you have to deal with a bunch of people debating what to do. You also have to deal with some activist groups arguing that he deserves a fair trial, fair treatment, etc. Then, you would have to deal with a bunch of terrorists making threats about their retaliation if OBL is killed. While that may not affect the decision making in the end, the life of this country's greatest enemy would just be a stupid issue for more people to be divided over.
 
#80
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droski said:
a trial would have been an absolute disaster.
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How long until Americans were rounded up in some corner of the world by terrorists, and used as a bargaining chip for Bin Laden's release?

If you don't release him, you get embarrassed and a public backlash. And you can't release him.

Was it a sacrifice of morals to kill an unarmed man? Maybe. I don't know if that makes it a wrong choice.
 
#81
#81
tvolsfan said:
Killing him was the only way to do this, IMO. He was killed, and everyone can celebrate, get closure, etc, and then they can move on. You capture him, and you have to deal with a bunch of people debating what to do. You also have to deal with some activist groups arguing that he deserves a fair trial, fair treatment, etc. Then, you would have to deal with a bunch of terrorists making threats about their retaliation if OBL is killed. While that may not affect the decision making in the end, the life of this country's greatest enemy would just be a stupid issue for more people to be divided over.
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This is the one valid reason I see for killing him on the spot.
 
#82
#82
I've always thought parting out the bad guys made sense. It actually accomplishes something and makes their worthless lives worth something again. Blood and organ type every one of them, put that into a database and wait. When something pops go cut it out of the appropriate murderer/rapist. If it's something like a kidney or a cornea you don't even have to kill them to get it. (at least until the heart transplant comes along)

Alternatively using them for drug testing could drastically speed up the process of getting worthwhile (even life saving) pharmaceuticals into the general population. (Besides, it'd be funny to use a pedophile as a subject to test what a REALLY serious case of priapism would do to a person)
 
#83
#83
IPorange said:
How long until Americans were rounded up in some corner of the world by terrorists, and used as a bargaining chip for Bin Laden's release?

If you don't release him, you get embarrassed and a public backlash. And you can't release him.

Was it a sacrifice of morals to kill an unarmed man? Maybe. I don't know if that makes it a wrong choice.
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and of course the trial would be considered a farce by anyone outside of america and he'd have a pulpit to spew his garbage. no upside whatsoever.
 
#89
#89
VolsNSkinsFan said:
Bush did use it and it takes time to follow up on leads
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Leads?

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#90
#90
I would say that I would have liked OBL to have been captured and endured the disgrace of imprisonment and trial. I know, however, that I would have then had to listen to human rights nuts complain that OBL was being mistreated, wasn't getting a fair trial, etc. I would have loved to seen OBL hanged, ala Saddam Hussein. Ultimately, though, I am happy with a bullet being put in his skull as he tried to use a woman as a human shield. It was more economical, anyway.
 
#91
#91
VolsNSkinsFan said:
Thats cool and I understand, but I just dont think someone who makes a quick and bad decision should be punished by death
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What about the clerk that was murdered? They were just minding their own business. Why should their murderer be allowed to sit in his cell and watch TV for the rest of his life?
 
#92
#92
droski said:
the information that led to his killing was found when bush was president. not sure you want to be going down the road with this argument.
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What was he trying to suggest, anyways? That Obama asked the detainees nicely?
 
#93
#93
Vol_4_Life said:
I would say that I would have liked OBL to have been captured and endured the disgrace of imprisonment and trial. I know, however, that I would have then had to listen to human rights nuts complain that OBL was being mistreated, wasn't getting a fair trial, etc.
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Exactly
 
#94
#94
I'm willing to do or let anything be done to make my country a safer place to live. Morality be damned if a terrorist is killed or tortured if it saves the lives of my family and myself. I can live with myself knowing that the piece of **** is no longer a threat to us because he took a few to the dome.
 
#96
#96
IPorange said:
How long until Americans were rounded up in some corner of the world by terrorists, and used as a bargaining chip for Bin Laden's release?

If you don't release him, you get embarrassed and a public backlash. And you can't release him.

Was it a sacrifice of morals to kill an unarmed man? Maybe. I don't know if that makes it a wrong choice.
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Release him with a bunch of C4 implanted into his anus. That way he can be an involuntary suicide bomber. As soon as American hostages are clear, blow him and his buddies to hell.
 
#97
#97
NewToVolCountry said:
I'm willing to do or let anything be done to make my country a safer place to live. Morality be damned if a terrorist is killed or tortured if it saves the lives of my family and myself. I can live with myself knowing that the piece of **** is no longer a threat to us because he took a few to the dome.
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Would you give some of your freedoms to be safer?
 
#98
#98
kptvol said:
Release him with a bunch of C4 implanted into his anus. That way he can be an involuntary suicide bomber. As soon as American hostages are clear, blow him and his buddies to hell.
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Denzel approves this method

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