Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Terror
From: Shel Belinkoff <belinkoff@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:02:23 -0700
References: <B7C6B175.136C5%tarek.charara@wanadoo.fr>

> Jeffery Smith said:
 
> > It is always easy to say "the ends 
> > justify the means". I don't subscribe
> > to that. Terrorists do.

And Tarek countered:

> This is a philosophical question. If you 
> know that killing someone can spare
> millions of other lives, would you kill 
> that person?
> It's a difficult question...

It seems the passengers on United 93 seemed to have had little trouble
in reaching a similar decision.  They were willing to risk their own
death to try to stop the plane from reaching its target.  They all
died in so doing, saving an unknown number of other lives
- -- 
Shel Belinkoff
mailto:belinkoff@earthlink.net

In reply to: Message from Tarek Charara <tarek.charara@wanadoo.fr> (Re: [Leica] Terror)