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Originally posted by JRV
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The Mob is a group of people headed by a ruthless, cold-blooded leader who punishes rivals and disloyalty within or outside his gang by killing, torturing, killing family members, terrorizing, or any other brutal means. Moreover, in our hypothetical Mob, most Mob members are not volunteers. They are innocents. Members only by virtue of the misfortune of being born in Mob Leader's territory. And, oh yeah, the Mob just might have WMDs.
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The analogy holds. Mob Leader is still a bad, bad man, and the cop is still wrong for killing him.
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Yes, Mob would be a much better analogy, but if we change who the bad guy is, the good guy can't stay a lone individual. As much as the press likes to blare it, Bush isn't the sole individual involved in the war a/g Sadam's regieme. The US is involved with 39 other countries both directly and indirectly backing the war. This has been coming.
I don't believe any analogy will solve this to complete satisfaction. The original analogy comes close, excepting you forget all the internal attrocities that were committed and concealed (since even the UN can't get a search warrant like a policeman could). Besides, shouldn't the internal populace have a voice as the oppressed majority?
Besides, what if I believe that a vigilante is justified? I can't think of anyone who cried for Alan Rickman at the end of Die Hard.
Tommy