The motives for state sanctioned murder tend to be fairly murky and
irrational, as far as I can make out...I was thinking more of Bonhoeffer's
participation in the assassination plot against Hitler - I believe he had
fairly good reason to think he had the right man...
- Dom
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: re self & unself etc
> But Dom
> >
> >p.s. I consider murder committed for rational purposes and in cold blood
to
> >be marginally preferable to the "crime of passion" which is impelled by
> >sentiment and unreasoning lust. If you're going to do awful things, you
> >should do them for intelligent reasons.
>
> Is committing state-sanctioned murder, especially with the possibility
that
> 'we' might have the wrong person (this has happened many times recently in
> Canada, & it is only because Canada no longer has the death penalty that
> these innocent people were finally released from their wrongful
> imprisonment), doing this awful thing 'for intelligent reasons'?
>
> I would call it an example of that irrational reason Colin was talking
> about... (which is another reason 'Dubya' is pretty frightening...)
>
> Douglas Barbour
> Department of English
> University of Alberta
> Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
> (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
> It's all in books, save the best part; God knows
> where that is: I found it once, wasn't looking
> John Thompson
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