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To: Neocon who wrote (134587)	5/27/2004 1:27:14 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Moral outrage is a perfectly legitimate reason to kill people: it expresses a cosmic sense of justice, that some things are so intolerable, one cannot wait to visit retribution. Ordinarily we distrust acting in hot blood, because we wish reason to supervene and establish with greater precision what is just. Even so, we punish people because they deserve it, and the more they deserve it, the more urgently do we want to punish them......... Do you really want to travel down that slippery slope and say that we can ignore the rule of law and substitute moral outrage [as] a perfectly legitimate reason to kill people? I hate to bring moral relativism into the conversatation but when you use "moral" then you must know that the standards differ all over the world. If your wife, for instance, failed to cover her face in a devoutly Muslim community and the men became outraged and stoned her to death, would that be "perfectly legitimate?" Would you say, "too bad but the killing was justified based on [their] 'moral outrage' defense?" I doubt it. I think you mean that you think it's ok to kill people without following the rule of law whenever YOU feel morally outraged. You and Bush have a lot in common.

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