Re: Tookie, tookie, tookie... what about the victims?
To assign a different value to the life of a person because of his occupation, to me, would be an injustice. Suppose I believe that President Bush is a mass murderer, owing to what I see as the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Should I be given more lenient treatment by a jury or judge who agrees with me, were I to kill the president, than if he were a good president?
This issue is dealt with in two movies I've recommended on another forum: Collateral, a very good movie, and The Third Man, a great movie. The villains in both movies justify their villainy in that their victims don't really deserve to live, or that their lives don't really matter.
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