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“We Only Killed The Bad People”- Who Said It: Hamas or the Khmer Rouge?
Murderers always try to justify themselves. Why is anyone falling for it?
The United States legal system, and indeed the rule of international law in the modern age, holds sacrosanct a simple tenet: When someone breaks the law, they should suffer the legal consequences.
What is their religion? Doesn’t matter.
What are their grievances? Not important.
Who is their target? Doesn’t matter.
Things like murder, kidnapping, rape, and torture are illegal pretty much everywhere on earth. For far-flung, isolated regions without such formal guidelines, NATO and UN guidelines regarding the rules of law will suffice.
When someone breaks the law, they should suffer the legal consequences. “Good intentions” don’t count for much in a court of law.
When sentencing someone for mass murder, the judge doesn’t pause to ask the guilty party, “Were you by any chance acting under some kind of greater moral good? If so, go in peace, my good Sir.”
Do people wrongfully imprisoned, who are later exonerated by DNA evidence after decades in jail, have the right to go on a violent rampage against judges, juries, law enforcement, innocent bystanders, and anyone else they decide…