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Seriously though, if you believe as I do that killing Osama bin Laden (in secret, if that would eliminate marytrdom) would be a good thing, and you agree with Yakk and pan6467 that Pat Robertson is more dangerous than Osama, then it seems like you should favor killing Pat Robertson.
When I say that we should kill Osama, I don't mean we should try and execute him: I mean we should kill him in secrecy and the cover up the killing so nobody finds out about it. This would save a great many lives in the long run, which is why it is justified. However, if Pat Robertson is really so dangerous, then we should do the same with him.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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