not exactly. for instance, i agree with capital punishment, so, for instance, the life of a convicted murderer would have less value (to me) than that of an innocent child. similarly, Osama bin Laden's life holds no great value for me.
so all innocent life are equally valuable to your eyes. correct? between the military recruiter killer and the abortion doctor killer, whose life is valuable?
EDIT: i mis-read your question. which of the two killers' lives has greater value? i'm not sure what you're getting at, but assuming they're both guilty, i'd say neither has more value than the other, both have less value than their victims.
I saw an episode of CSI MIAMI just like this. Recruiter gets killed by a teenager who was not allowed to serve... true story!
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looks like we can add the honorific "Muslim" to the thread title: [rquoter]An Arkansas man was arrested Monday in connection with a shooting at a Little Rock military recruiting center that killed one soldier and wounded another, authorities said. Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad -- a 24-year-old Little Rock resident formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe -- faces a first-degree murder charge and 15 counts of engaging in a terrorist act, Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas said. The terrorist counts stem from the shots fired at an occupied building. The soldier who was killed was identified as Pvt. William Long, 24, of Conway, and the wounded soldier is Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville, Thomas said. Ezeagwula is in stable condition and expected to recover, the police chief said. Although military officials initially believed that the shooting was a random act, Thomas said police think the shooter acted alone "with the specific purpose of targeting military personnel." "I'm relieved there's a suspect in custody," said Capt. Matthew Feehan, commander of the center. Feehan said seven other recruiters were in the building, but nobody else was injured. Thomas said police recovered three guns from Muhammad's black Ford SUV: an SKS semi-automatic rifle, a .22-caliber rifle and a pistol. The victims were just out of basic training and had not been deployed, said Lt. Col. Thomas F. Artis, commander of the Oklahoma recruiting battalion that oversees the Little Rock recruiting center. The soldiers were part of a recruiting program called "hometown recruiting assistance," Artis said. Under the program, recruiters have the soldiers tell their stories to potential recruits. It's a volunteer position taken while soldiers are visiting or based back in their home region, Artis said. The FBI has opened an investigation into the incident, said Steven Frazier, spokesman for the agency's Little Rock office. "Based on what we find, we will determine whether there is any federal jurisdiction to prosecute," he said.[/rquoter]
It may very well prove to be an act of terrorism, but Basso, you made that assessment without knowing the details. That's a bit dishonest.
Sooooooooooo we have muslim terrorists. and we have christian terrorists (those of course involved in Northern Ireland have long known this). and we had jewish terrorists (hello King David bombing). and hell, we even had Buddhist terrorists (the Aum sect gas attacks). ...is it just me, or is there a conspicuous lack of atheist "terrorists"? Food for thought. Could just be that the flexible definition of terrorist hasn't quite reached the atheists among us.
Wouldn't all of the communist terrorists and anarchist terrorists be atheist terrorists? If so, the largest group by far of terrorists of the last 150 years would be atheist terrorists.
Ton's of Muslims in the world, tons of Christians, decent amount of Jews, not so many atheists. I think Atheists make up a couple percent of people in our population here in the U.S. (according to some statistics I've seen, can't remember where, maybe somebody could post some). It's because there's not a lot of 'em!
