Honestly, this statement depends entirely on the way you define the word "murder".
by Anonymous12 years ago
An unfortunate accident...?
by Anonymous12 years ago
"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Martin Luther King, Jr
by Anonymous12 years ago
Good for him, I, on the other hand, will
by Anonymous12 years ago
That's not MLK. Someone made up a quote after Osama's death and it went viral.
by Anonymous12 years ago
seriously? lol...it's still a nice quote.
by Anonymous12 years ago
http://i.imgur.com/cqtjw.jpg
That's how it started. She wrote her own sentiments and then added a real MLK quote to the end of it and then it spread throughout the internet as an original MLK quote.
by Anonymous12 years ago
that's pretty wild. i stand corrected on the source of the statement.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Depends.
by Anonymous12 years ago
If you kill a murderer then you are one too.
by Anonymous12 years ago
In a war, is it really murder?
by Anonymous12 years ago
Yes. I'm a pacifist. War shouldn't exist.
by Anonymous12 years ago
That shouldn't stop you from understanding situational context.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Look up the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs and tell me you don't want them to be "brought to justice" in the most painful way possible.
by Anonymous12 years ago
are those the three guys one hammer kids?
by Anonymous12 years ago
WHAT THE FUCK!
by Anonymous12 years ago
I can't unsee that. Ughh
by Anonymous12 years ago
Oh my. You watched the video?
by Anonymous12 years ago
A few seconds of it until I realized it was an actual video of someone being murdered... and then I looked them up on wikipedia. :(
by Anonymous12 years ago
They are some of the most terrible people I have ever heard about. Terribly screwed up.
by Anonymous12 years ago
It kinda depends... I'm not sure about justice, but say if you killed a murderer, that would be bad because the person would be dead, BUT, it would be good, because you could be preventing more people's deaths.
But on the other hand, that's kinda what prison and mental institutions are for, right? To keep crazed serial killers away from the rest of the world?
So yeah, I'm not sure.
by Anonymous12 years ago
This is obviously about Osama. In a war situation, the killing of an enemy is NOT murder. And keeping him alive and taking him to trial so you can achieve your "justice" is a horrible decision.
Do you really think the leader of a group who intensely despises everything related to our existence is going to say anything? And you know there would be numerous terrorist activity surrounding the jail and courtroom, attempting to free him.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Killing is murder. Even if we're killing an enemy.
I agree that killing Osama was the best thing we could do, but that doesn't make killing him right.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Situational context.
by Anonymous12 years ago
I love that Adolf_Hitler no way-ed this.
by Anonymous12 years ago
is this referring to capital punishment or war? I disagree in some cases either way. Sometimes in war, the ends justify the means.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Okay... Let's take it from the top. I was as thrilled as the next person to hear that first "Breaking news: Osama is dead." I was skeptical for a long time as to whether he was alive or just died somewhere, but my doubts were quelled... Hey, they got him!
His killing itself did not bother me, it's what happened next: it was barely a day after his death was announced that we hear he was given a burial at sea. I was in total disbelief, first I hear he was killed and they had his body, then I hear they got rid of his body. Before anyone could even see it? How can somebody NOT worry about that?
This was done, supposedly, "to respect Islamic tradition" (Because when we finally get Bin Laden the only thing on anyone's mind is respectful burial of his remains, amirite?). The best part is, they "wanted to respect Islam," but apparently they were in such a rush to get the body dumped out there in the ocean like garbage that they missed the part where Islam forbids burial at sea.
by Anonymous12 years ago
On the topic of the death sentence, a person being convicted wouldn't really be able to appreciate the justice, seeing as they're dead. It's more like revenge for the friends and family of the person's victims. This is definitely the case for Osama.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Do you understand the definition of murder? No murder is not justice, but killing someone can be. As per Christian values, as an example, if someone deliberately kills someone out of malice they are deemed to deserve death. But if you're in a war killing is necessary, the death surrounding Osama is sketchy at best but if you go explicitly by what the government is telling the public, justice was served. He killed over 3000 America citizens and he deserved death for his actions. Justice was served in the form of death.
by Anonymous12 years ago
It was revenge, plain and simple.
by Anonymous12 years ago
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." -Winston Churchill
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