Just a thought...

[hellison]

Seeing that the shooting that guy debate [1] is still going on on flame made me wonder - if he had turned out to be a bomber, would the majority of the people have even considered argueing about it?

(I've mostly skimmed it, so this may have been brought up there already).

I have my own opinions on it, it always just amazes me to see people who see things in such strict Black and White, Good Thing/Bad Thing etc - and thats on both sides of the argument.

There are always Circumstances, and Context and shades of grey.
Or maybe I see too many shades of grey.
hmm.


[1] Yes I could find a better name for it, but its late and its been a long evening.
And I'm footnoting lj posts. Oh dear.

Comments

[vashti.livejournal.com]

Yes, but we can "what if" until the cows come home. The facts remain that the police shot someone dead based on his coming out of a block of flats that some terrorists had been in - a block of flats they didn't even have sufficient evidence to raid, like they did a lot of other places that they had firmer evidence about that week, and which they have still not raided.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I do understand that - I wasn't really debating the issue itself, primarily because I haven't followed the story closely enough to get the details, more bemoaning the knee-jerk reactions to it of, well, jerks.

And by that I don't mean everyone who was posting, just the ones who would have been screaming the exact opposite of what they're saying now if things had gone differently. If you see what I mean.