Lacking, yes, conflicting, where?

Well, it felt that way, from this perspective. Anyhow, You do now know what i was trying to say? [basically what a few people said below my first post to be honest]

As a history major, I find it amusing so many people are arguing against his assassination.

Only in the 20th/21st century would you have people considering the assassination of someone so barbaric and hated throughout the world as being a deplorable act. It's not like this is the first hated person throughout history to be assassinated either.

Teh aliens! Haven't you noticed the disturbingly increased number of ufo sightings in the past year and a half? :))) j/k

Well for the moment, the retaliation threats and the supposed hidden a-bomb in europe are enough to increase the security, keep the world in fear, diminish civil liberties even further, be fiercer with the war on terror etc.

We can actually go further with that? [i mean, while still keeping the 'democratic [republic]' name?] Wow, the flexibility of the term must be amazing!;)

Are we humans or animals? Well of course we are both.
I do think that the idea of humans as something separate from other animals is a valid one as we do certainly have many unique and very impressive features. I'm not a humanist anymore myself but I do think that humanism is a very important advancement for our species and also a defense against less human friendly ideas and ideologies like religious extremism, socialist extremism, fascism and (a more theoretical possibility) eco-extremism.

Despite this I do think it is important to often remind people that we are indeed animals. Many educated people that should know better are often ignorant of this fact and I think this is detrimental both to us and to nature.

Even though you perhaps would not want have a man or woman as ideological as that as a president, don't you think it is a good sign that we (society) have evolved in a good way?

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You click every Rick Roll video don't you :D?

And ...? So what? I don't get what's amusing about this observation. Are you trying to imply that we can disregard and ridicule all ideas as new as stemming from the 20th century? That there's nothing to learn from history, no need for change? Besides, it''s more the celebration of such an act, its justification as a legit political means and the belief that it will change anything for the better that's causing controversy here.

I don't agree that there is a principal difference here. We are much more advanced than any other animal in our morals and culture but for us as with them it is a mix between genetic rules and how the environment influences the individual.

Oh, so you're a history major... I almost found it disturbing that you knew something about our history for a change
I found it pointless to argue with people about that. They'll never get off their high horse.

You can kill people , but you can't kill creed .

Since the events of 11 September 2001, I haven't considered Osama bin Laden a Man.

His death, by whatever means, is a good thing in this world. One may lament the violent death of some random person, such as when an al Qaeda suicide bomber lights up his or her vest in an Iraqi public market or outside a mosque, but I'll be damned if I can work up a tear or any bit of regret for the well-deserved death of bin Laden and those in his organization.

And, in some cases there's a legitimate cause for assassination. Had somebody managed to assassinate Hitler at the right time things would have wound up very different. Not saying that the end result would necessarily have been desirable, but it would have been different. Hitler was a genius in terms of how he ran the 3rd Reich, he unfortunately chose to use his genius for evil purposes, but he was still a genius, and taking him down would likely have caused things to implode.

What I'm wondering about is how Obama managed to make the call to W, I'm guessing it was taking pretty much all of his discipline not to be snarky about the fact that he's cleaning up a mess that W could easily have cleaned up had he been a competent leader, instead of invading everybody that looked at us cockeyed.

You and everyone else. Implying that anyone here would shed a tear for Bin Laden is just silly. It's not about him but about us. Preaching human rights just to take them away from anyone you deem not man anymore, that won't do a lot for your credibility and is a very dangerous road to take.

I disagree, this isn't a case of mistaken identity or where we're not positive what he had done.

Or are you seriously suggesting that the attempt to assassinate Hitler was morally dodgy because he's got human rights?