Can the assassination of a dictator be justified? Is Israel's policy of "targeted assassinations" justified?
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Anonymous
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Yes. No.
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Of course it can be justified. Would people have thought we were justified in assissinating Hitler? How about Pol Pot?
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No. Killing of another life is not justified.
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Taking out a genocidal tyrant like Hitler, Pol Pot, or Saddam Hussein is always OK in my book...
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Two words: Adolph Hitler
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Morally I can see how some assasinations could be 'justified'eg. Hitler, Pol Pot, Mother Theresa (only kidding). However I cant think of any legal frame-work that would allow this. I'm not even gonna touch the Israeli side of this question, I do have my views but I'm not in the mood to have myself ripped a new A.
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Yes. Yes again.
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I think it can be but the slippery slope is this..... doing it but complaining about it when it happens to you.
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The only "justification" needed is the justification of the person or persons doing the targeting. I am sure Israel feels it's policy is justified and one of the keys to their survival in the middle of a very unfriendly neighborhood.
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Very, very rarely. Only when that dictator is personally responsible for some extremely cruel policy, and taking him out will not simply result in his being replaced by another. Perhaps Idi Amin, Hitler, Stalin might have fulfilled these criteria. In the Israeli case, when you kill one Palestinian leader, another moves up to take his place. The Palestinians have already proved that they are not afraid to fight and die, so Israel's assassinations will not deter others from stepping up to take their places. But, being in fear for their lives every hour of every day, they are likely to be more aggressive and extreme than someone who was not being targeted. The policy is therefore both immoral and counterproductive.
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Yes, and an extremely LOUD YES!!!
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Better to kill the Main ass then to kill all of them.
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It is definitely unjustifiable for a dictator to be assassinated. Okay Hitler, Pol Pot or possibly even Saddam Hussein were not good at raising their country or giving it the fertility it needs to grow, but that does not hurl aside that assassination is MURDER. If you say Adolf Hitler should have been assassinated, i agree for he did not do his country well, but who gave the right to the assassin to MURDER him. What about Abraham Lincoln, he was a dictator and surely he did his country well. WAS HIS ASSASSINATION JUSTIFIABLE. The same goes with both Gandhi and Julius Caesar. Jesse James is another famous figure who was assassinated. James was an outlaw but the man who killed him killed to be famous. Would u kill a man to be famous. NO. That is unjust and unfair. As the constitution of the United States said "All men are created equal. They are given by their creator certain rights that cannot be taken away. One of these rights is the right to live". So is Israel's policy of "targeted assassinations" justified. My answer to you and who ever else that may come and read is NO.
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Evil is nothing more than what happens if the Good does not act. A dictator who can not be removed by peaceful means leaves the Good little choice. Answer, Yes
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Not simply on the basis of the person being a dictator. There are many parts a broader picture to consider ... such as how well his people are treated, their level of living conditions, their justice system, etc., etc. In the case of Israel, it would not have survived without assassinations. I do not personally condemn them in any way for doing what they have been forced to do simply in order to survive. It is too bad that the assassination attempt on Hitler was unusccessful - it would have saved millions of innocent lives.
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