If this was at all possible to make happen there'd have been a really long line of volunteers ready and willing to push the pacifist aside and get the job done. The one to do it would first have to step around the mob fighting each other to get be the one to do it.Robert_S wrote:Case in point:Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Um, in some cases.Tero wrote:Sure, it's easy. The one that kills less people is suprior to the one that kills more. Includes killing as part of your job.
I was talking with a Christian pacifist who said he wouldn't kill Hitler even if he knew full well what would happen and if he knew that the alternative timeline wouldn't involve something even worse because for him, killing was just wrong. End of.
That is to say, he couldn't deal with the thought of blood on his hands. I thought it was a moral NIMBY. Millions dead is just fine as long as long as it wasn't him.
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But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights. ~Rachel Maddow August 2010
The Second Amendment forms a fourth branch of government (an armed citizenry) in case the government goes mad. ~Larry Nutter
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