[thelist] Re: [thechat] Mumbai bomb blasts

[William Anderson]

DESCHAMPS Stéphane DSI/SICOR wrote:

>>You kill?  On purpose?  You die.
> 
> 
> ... which reminds me of an old comic-book page I really liked.
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> In an unknown country the Law says: anyone who kills shall be killed.
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> Thus a murderer is executed.
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> Thus the executioner becomes a murderer.
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> [snip]

However, the definition of a murderer is one who kills unlawfully.  If the 
law mandates that an appointed person is to execute the murderer once 
apprehended, convicted and sentenced, the executioner is carrying out a 
lawful act, and is therefore not - by definition - a murderer themselves.

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