Red pill or White pill...

[Tonchi]

Originally Posted by Beestie

I can't think of too many serial killers, serial rapists or child predators whose premature death would not have benefited society.

Sometimes, the right thing to do is just the right thing to do.

Ah, but you talking about premeditated removal before the fact of a criminal-in-waiting as opposed to society's retribution after the fact? Nobody would argue that it were better some people had never been born, but that is not the issue posed by the little pills. The premise was take them out, Charles Bronson style, and I replied that it might sound good and feel good but I doubted that social engineering by murder of specific key people would be anything more than a temporary solution, and that history would prove it. I don't believe that, except in movies, when the hero blasts the bad guy leader, the entire structure behind him collapses and slinks away.

I guess the most perfect example of what I am saying is right this minute in Iraq. Take out Saddam, evil dictator, mass murderer and all-around bad guy, and Mission Accomplished! :p