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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
I guess my question is....did they have to kill him? why couldnt they shoot him to disable him, say in the arm or leg or something
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I still think this is a good question........ yes I know bombers have to be stopped on the instant and not even have a minor chance of "pulling the trigger" on the bomb, but....you can't help but wonder.
I think it was justified and it's unfortunate for everyone involved that it turned out that the guy was just mentally unwell. But some situations are clearly no-win. The Marshal had no choice.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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