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

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Subject: [Leica] Terror
From: "Edward Birch" <edwbirch@home.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:29:23 -0400
References: <200109131825.LAA17264@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
 
> le 13.09.2001 17:10, Jeffery Smith à jsmith45@bellsouth.net a écrit :
>
> > It is always easy to say "the ends justify the means". I don't subscribe
> > to that. Terrorists do.
>
> 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...

But one that Harry S. Truman faced in 1945.  He did save millons of lives.

Ed.