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kyrathaba:
the reality is that this forum is a mix of different people with often (very) different ideas of what's acceptable or not. I thought the response was very mixed -
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The only thing I have to say to both parties is using the internet requires tough skin. I hope I haven't done anything to offend anything and would certainly want to make amends if so, but it is unrealistic to believe all of us will agree on every subject.
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+1.

House, remember that a lot of what you're reading is quick, emotion-motivated posts, many of them by Americans who are glad to have some form of closure after almost a decade of grief and smoldering anger over the Twin Towers.  I daresay most would not have pulled the trigger, had they had a gun pointing at Osama.  To a certain degree, we have to learn to overlook or shrug-off dissenting points of view.  

I hope, therefore, that you'll choose to stay.  Just don't read posts whose titles suggest they might contain posts offensive to you.  That's what I do :)

housetier:
stephen, You are mangling several issues into one. This makes it difficult to answer.

1.) I cannot agree to foregoing trial and killing right away for economic reasons. We are talking about civilization here (mostly: "how do we deal with Bad people"). However, if you want to go into this: the federal military budget is so totally out of proportion, no one knows how many zeros that number has. So to putting him to trial would cost two or three bombs at most. That is not much compared to the operating cost of an aircraft carrier.

2.) About those death tolls (and this is very difficult to use in an argument): how many Americans died related to the event we now call "9/11" compared to how many Americans died in the following wars?

3.) Yes people do care a lot. Some care so much they go out of their way and belittle dissenting voices, or call names.

4.) I did not tell you to shut up or to leave. So from my point of view you can still post whatever you want here, regardless of how little I agree.

5.) I will not go into all those provocative maneuvers you put in your post. I consider myself too grown up.

mrainey:
I'm no gunslinger, but given the opportunity I'd have pulled that specific trigger.  As far as I'm concerned, Osama confessed with his video exultations and calls for future mass killings.  Formal trial not necessary.

housetier:
So once the guilt has been established by whomever, anyone can carry out the sentence?

edbro:
So to putting him to trial would cost two or three bombs at most. That is not much compared to the operating cost of an aircraft carrier.-housetier (May 03, 2011, 10:13 AM)
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What you are not seeing is the human cost of keeping him in a prison awaiting trial. There would be rioting around the world, which usually comes with a huge loss of life. There would be hostages taken in an attempt to have him released. The extremists would all be rallying and coming together instead of falling apart.

It is much better this way. It was quick, it was clean, and it is over. There is no grave site to be made a shrine. There is no living bin Laden in prison that would become more of a symbol for the extremists.

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