Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
Monday, April 07, 2003 :::
My brother makes a good point about assassinations; I'd restricted myself to good reasons for the taboo. Not that I'm entirely unsympathetic to the notion of facelessness; certainly I think that if someone makes a product that millions of people use and enjoy, and is not terribly surprised when it's linked to five deaths, that seems less bad than if he knew who the five to die were; exposing a lot of people to small probabilities of harm seems less bad to me than killing anybody, though I can't quite think why that would be. Just because I think a reason isn't good doesn't mean I don't emote in its favor (or contrapositively).