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jabbadonut:
Well Raoul, I'd be plenty pissed off. That is the point. If a relative of someone knew their kin was contemplating a terrorist act, they would work extra hard to keep them from doing it, n'est pas?
I support the Palestinians right to have a country. I believe they have a legitimate grievance, and that something needs to be done to help them. But, to tie bombs to yourself and walk into crowded areas and blow yourself and anyone else you can into bits is insanity and alienates those who could help them. The terrorism must cease, period.
The only way to rid the world (and terrorism occurs in many other places than the Middle East) is to eliminate it as an option. That will only be done by making the penalty for terrorism so severe, that no one will seriously contemplate using it. |
First of all, how exactly do you plan on enforcing your scheme of family for a family justice? If a Canadian were to blow up a building in Idaho, would Navy SEALs raid small towns across Canada to hand out "justice"? Not on my watch, I don't believe in the death penalty in the first place and killing perfectly innocent people for no good reason in the name of fighting terrorism makes your worse than the terrorists.
Secondly, just what is terrorism? Could protesting, even unlawfully, be described as an act of terrorism and therefore be punishable by not only your death, but that of your entire family? Your plan sounds a lot like what totalitarian countries do with dissenters. Also, couldn't murdering someone be deemed a terrorist act? What if someone were wrongfully accused and he and his familly slaughtered for no reason?
Thirdly, this probably won't deter terrorists very much. If someone is an orphan, doesn't care about their family or believes their family will be safe after they commit their act of terrorism, this probably won't do jack shit and this will probably make people EVEN angrier than they were before.
Fourthly, you say "If a relative of someone knew their kin was contemplating a terrorist act, they would work extra hard to keep them from doing it, n'est pas?" So, I'm basically supposed to keep track of what my relatives are doing and be extra certain they're not building bombs? According to that logic, I should know what Captain Supermarket (My cousin) is doing at this very moment in order to prevent him from becoming a terrorist.
Finally, as I've already said, you'd be killing innocent people who had nothing to do with what happened. I can't justify that no matter how hard I try.
Face it, your plan is stupid and unworkable. The only way to get rid of terrorism is to attack its root causes using preventative measures. We can never get rid of it completely, as it is an idea, unless you want to start newspeaking and edit it out of the world's languages.
