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Originally Posted by Kevin
It's not a murder.
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My disclaimer would read that I used the term murder in a biblical sense, not a legal one.
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Originally Posted by Ghostwriter
Just wondering if you were old enough to remember the celebrations when Ted Bundy was executed for the murder of the 3 Chi Omega members at FSU. I remember some fast food restaurants giving out free Bundy fries the day of his execution. His execution was not a murder and neither was the killing of OBL.
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Bundy and bin Laden both willingly succumbed to evil. Both of them were stopped, which was necessary for the safety of the rest of us. However (again speaking from a biblical perspective), all human life deserves respect and compassion. The loss of bin Laden is the loss of a leader that, had he been on the righteous path, would have been a powerful force for good. It is heartbreaking that he made the choices he did and was responsible for so many deaths. He had to be stopped.
I come from a long line of soldiers and if I've learned anything it is that no one wants to go to war and no one wants to kill another person. So, I would rather people expend their energies not celebrating bin Laden's death, but praying for the soldiers who bore the burden, and will have to deal with the psychological impact, of taking lives, as well as all the extremists who can still make the right choice about their involvement in evil activities.
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