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Originally Posted by Letum
How does it?
Assuming the tour host asks you to only shoot at pirates and not fishermen,
what does it matter if you came to shoot anyone, so long as you only shoot
pirates?
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So wait - you're saying that killing an ARMED ATTACKER is the moral equivolent of killing a fisherman?
Huh?
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Aramike, would you find anything objectionable in selling the chance to carry
out state executions?
Perhaps an auction. The highest bidder gets to administer the lethal injection,
throw the switch or open the trap-door for a death-row inmate.
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That would absolutely be objectionable. It's a good point you make, but it is off the mark.
The deathrow inmate isn't in the process of committing a crime when he's executed, whereas the pirate is. Furthermore, the deathrow inmate isn't in a position to make the choice whether or not to commit the crime - the pirate is.
These are vast differences.