Alison:
Your:
> "Rational" murder requires, first,
>the dehumanisation of the one to be murdered. Even Herr Hitler was,
>alas, a human being: to justify his murder on the grounds that he has
>foreited his humanity creates for me too uncomfortable a mirror of Nazi
>ideology. And there's the rub of justice: and also Camus' argument, if I
>recall rightly, against capital punishment, which was that no state could
>morally legislate against murder if it was a party to murder itself.
Was exactly my point. I think Dom tried to answer that, but, even if, in
our hearts, we agree that perhaps Bonhoeffer was 'right,' your (& others')
comments on assassination do hit home. How attach 'reason' at its best to
such thought?
>
>(I don't know if anyone else finds the Pope's recent announcement that
>the Catholic Church is the One True Church deeply disturbing. These
>things still have huge impacts on our world.)
Yes, they do, & I too find it (at least) 'disturbing'...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
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John Thompson
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