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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (506293)	12/9/2003 1:24:24 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) of 769670

No sidestepping, Buddy. I just didn't read your meaning because you split the sentiment into two statements. By the time I read the first, I was so fed up I just left. Apologies. The scenarios you mention are quite simple to deal with. Absent extenuating circumstances, if both the bomb dropper and the chemical dumper do their actions with the pure motive to kill innocent humans, both are guilty of murder. Whether they are to be judged by varying degrees based upon the directness and effectiveness of their brands of murder is quite another issue. On the other hand, if either the bomb dropper or chemical dumper aimed primarily for some other goal, yet knowing of a certainty their actions would result in the death of innocent humans, they are still murderers, but of a lesser degree, since their intent was not to murder. The degree of murder in this latter case can decrease to near insignificance in some circumstances, say, when guilty targets place innocent hostages before them with the aim of protecting themselves. In such cases a shift in culpability may be caused so that the guilty target becomes blameworthy and not necessarily the bomb or chemical dropper.

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