During World War II, the individual below did not point a weapon at anybody either. He did not personally kill anybody. He just "helped" others realize that they should commit such crimes. That´s all he did.
As far as I know, Osama bin Ladin has never personally killed an American either.
Do you actually believe that only the man who pulls the trigger has the accountability for murder?
Do you actually believe that spending 15 years in prison, from age 30 to age 45, is a just sentence for aiding in the murder of 3,000 individuals? As putupon calculated, that comes out to less than 44 hours in prison for per each human life taken.
In the 1940's, Germans had so little regard for human life that 40 million Europeans died. Now, Germans believe that human life is so precious that a terrorist planner should only lose 15 years of it even if he helps murder 3,000 individuals.
The Europeans might say that Americans are "provincial". However, it is very hard for America to have much respect for such extreme manic depressive swings in European moral values.
