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Originally Posted by ynwa03
You're right. But i think it would have done the complete opposite. If he was captured, tried and executed things would have been done the right way. I think killing him and not giving proof of his death is worse and would open the door for more violence.
One of the reasons people advocate capital punishment is because it is a gruesome deterrent. If you show everyone that a crime will have the punishment of death, you will have that in the back of a persons mind if they think of committing that crime. I think same thing would apply here. We are all human. If Bin Laden was captured and executed i think it would have sent a strong message to people.
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A strong message to who? The Al-Qaeda members that routinely blow themselves up for the cause? The people that do that
want to die. They want to be martyred. The fear of being killed by the Great Devil is not going to persuade them to stop wanting to die in the battle against the Great Devil.
"You love life, and we love death."