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Originally Posted by Platapus
Perhaps because we don't want to sink to the level of the criminal?
If we act no better than a criminal, we are no better than the criminal.
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if we are going to tow that line, then we may as well disband our military, since by that principle; killing a killer can never be justified - even in self defense, or in defense of someone else.
Context is everything. And what you say might make some sense if applied broadly or to say - capital punishment.
But lets just think about the equivalence in this case,
Denying a person re-entry to a nation, is comparable to them aiding or committing murder in the name of some ideology?
No, I don't see how that is stooping down to their level at all, Sorry.
There is idealistic and then there is realistic.