ESR's Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by Xugumad
Self-defense ends the second you kill an innocent.

When innocents are killed as a result of defending against an attack, the culpability belongs to the original attacker.

Simpleminded conclusions like yours are the reason Saddam wrapped his high-value targets with human shields of innocent civilians, and then pumped the resulting casualties for propaganda value.

Rewarding a terrorist by advancing his agenda because he's willing to commit violence for its publicity value is completely wrongheaded, and invites further violence from any nutball who has a cause but lack a concience. And to sit there and accuse those who won't fall for such a ploy of "criminally narrowmindedness" abets the terrorist's crimes.