"Which part of it is hearsay? Bin Laden has openly claimed responsibility for many terror attacks, and voiced his desire for many more against the western world. Are you saying that we should give him the benefit of the doubt?"
As long as no court found him guilty the person is a suspect. Just ask the police how many people claim that they are serial murders, especially when they are trying to find the true serial murderer, jumping on a bandwaggon is not uncommon (IRA did that, ETA did that, PLO, Fatah they all did that). As long as no legal court found a suspect guilty it stays a suspect and is not the actor. This is one of basic principles of the law we know, the law that is in place in the USA in UK, and numerous other countries who call them selfs democratic and republic.
"About the Nurmberg trials, I'll just say this, the world is a very different place in 1946 compared to now. Also, supposing keeping bin Laden alive for 1 day costs $10,000, that's $10,000 that could be put to good use for other, better things."
What has changed? just because the numberous have changed due to inflation? the $10.000 you are trying to save here, will cost you 100 times more while having the armed troops in afghanistan and iraq faced with bombs and other terrorist attacks, those arent cheap, not in money and also not in lives.
"You may see it differently, but if someone with a murderous past openly declares that he has the intention to continue his killing, I would rather he be eliminated first, using whatever means possible, no questions asked and no ethics applied."
And thats where your ethics stop to work, assumption you take, words you hear are enough for you to judge about live or death. You are not judging out of facts but out of hearsay. There is a reason why there is a law in use and courts who work. Putting them out of charge would save a massive amount of money, so why still having them, when it is enough that someone claims he wants to kill someone else, to shoot him down? So where is the line you are drawing where courts should judge and where someone else is allowed to judge? and who is controlling those non-judges if they did right or wrong?
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