War is an eternal issue (unfortunately)...
Reader comment on item: What Security Measures vis-à-vis Western Muslims?
in response to reader comment: Terrorism is WRONG!!!

Submitted by Mike (Sweden), Feb 24, 2009 at 00:46

People may tend to act irrationally under extreme circumstances like when fighting a war...

However that gives noone the right to take a life when it's not directly in self defence.

We humans tend to think we are on the top of the food chain but the bottom line is, we're mammals.

Or more precisely hunting gathering mammals yet we're the most brutal and savage race on earth.

There will allways be war and death in the world, I say we are all responsible (the ones able to make an adult choise) for our actions.

That means: Do Not Behead Engineers unless they attack you with a fully loaded laptop and you are in grave danger of getting injured by the cpu fan noise...

What I'm trying to say is:

Combative soldiers on either side is fair game (whether they are mlitary or guerilla/militia) but for goodness sake have enough sense to leave chldren out of it...

// Devoted Father

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