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To: Tennessean4Bush

Forgot to add, the original reason I asked you was your statement about love being better served by "murder." I just could not think of any case where this might be true.


704 posted on 06/02/2004 4:21:41 AM PDT by sauropod (Paleo-cons make better lovers)
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To: sauropod
Forgot to add, the original reason I asked you was your statement about love being better served by "murder." I just could not think of any case where this might be true.

This one is easy, though probably remote for most people.

Imagine yourself being asked to participate in a plot to murder Adolph Hitler and many of his key gnerals and thugs. There is motive and malice of forethought and all the ingredients for first-degree murder. You had a real, legitimate shot at pulling it off. Would you do it? A category 3 person would recognize instantly that love would indeed be better served by murder in this case.

709 posted on 06/02/2004 5:57:28 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, a pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: sauropod
Forgot to add, the original reason I asked you was your statement about love being better served by "murder." I just could not think of any case where this might be true.

This one is easy, though probably remote for most people.

Imagine yourself being asked to participate in a plot to murder Adolph Hitler and many of his key gnerals and thugs. There is motive and malice of forethought and all the ingredients for first-degree murder. You had a real, legitimate shot at pulling it off. Would you do it? A category 3 person would recognize instantly that love would indeed be better served by murder in this case.

710 posted on 06/02/2004 5:57:37 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, a pessimist fears this is true.)
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BTW, that is a true (not hypothetical) situation several Christian men found themselves facing during WWII in Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, the attempt failed and most (if not all) complicit in the plot were hunted down and executed. The holocaust continued, of course, and the world was not spared the horrors that followed.


711 posted on 06/02/2004 6:01:14 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, a pessimist fears this is true.)
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