>>All Life Is Sacred. From embryos to convicted murderers to foreigners who hate us, to U.S. soldiers. All means all. Even Arafat. Unless your morals are relative.<<
I willingly concede that all life starts out sacred. But human beings have the ability - it's called free will - to do wrong -- and when they do certain wrongs they forfeit the right to remain at large. I think we can agree on that.
Murderers shouldn't walk the street committing more murder, they should be locked up where they can't commit more murder. I think they should be executed, you probably don't, but we can agree that they should be locked up.
So, I really don't care whether Arafat is killed or locked up forever. I think killing is better, but locking him up and keeping him incommunicado for eternity is harsher but just as effective.
As for murder and relativism - absolutely. That's why there are degrees of homicide, from soldiers in war and self defense, which isn't culpable, to negligence, which isn't criminal, then negligent homicide, reckless homicide, murder two, murder one, capital murder. Yes, we've assigned relativity to homicide since there has been recorded law. |
