i am actually quite the other way normally - as in i don't agree with the
death sentence. i have always been against it.
this bin laden man was a whole different ball game, and 9/11 affected
me pretty badly actually. I got rid of my TV for one, and i have never
been able to step on a plane since. I recall seeing a mobile phone in
the rubble that was still intact and the screen said something like 138 missed
calls. I still see that image sometimes.
therefore i have been able to 'dehumanize' him. It's not like he was sorry
-posting his shit on you tube - gloating. If you had of said prior to him
having dementure he said he was sorry, then i would not be able to
dehumanize him, not if he was displaying human characteristics like remorse, so
in that instance i would not kill him.
also, saying that if i were the one that had to go pull the 'trigger' and i found
a weak, dribbly, disorientated old man - i probably wouldn't be able to do it
anyway.
as it stands, bin laden had what was coming to him. he chose his career, he decided
to make 'murder' his line iof business, his victims didn't - hell they thought they
were just going to work in an office... live by the sword, die by the sword and all that