orangeban said:
kitetsu said:
Elmoth said:
Just as with Bin Laden I think someone shouldn't sink to his level and kill him without question, but be the better man and decide in court what is just. However, it is still better for the world that this mad man is dead. But if he is dead that means the rebels now have one hell of job to get the country back in order, I'd think.
I'm sorry, but this is what Lawful Stupids would do. Gaddafi's killed enough people to fill a small town, and getting capped by an angry gunman doesn't make that angry gunman as much of a villain as Gaddafi is.
No, no it would not sink the gunmen to the same level as Gaddafi, but I ask you this, what is the point of having a justice system, if when you find a bona-fide criminal, you don't actually use the bloody justice system?
Who's justice system? Do they arrest him and extradite him to america? He's done no crimes against america. Do we wait until the rebels have won and instituted a justice system of their own? This is how despots end. It's how despots ALWAYS end. If tomorrow, Obama decided that he wasn't ever going to give up power, and somehow had the army on his side, perhaps due to some sort of religious indoctrination, he would end either being hung, or shot. There's no "fair trial" for people who commit crimes against humanity. The result of the trial is basically predetermined because the people doing the trial are the ENEMIES of the person being tried. So, if the result of the trial is predetermined and the end result is execution, what cause, other then assuaging the morals of the victors, is there in having a mock trial?
All it does is waste time and money.
So that's pretty much what makes it different - crimes against humanity. Saddam Hussein got a trial, but we all knew how that was going to end. There wasn't going to be a loophole big enough for him to get off scottfree, because the people holding the noose were bound and determined it was going to go around his neck.
I say just save time and money, and if a despot falls, you just let what happens happen, because it's going to anyway.