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A comment on Assassination Is a Leaky Abstraction. Parent comment

Re:Assassination Is a Leaky Abstraction by cocacola1 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:43PM (#42335700)
> What assassination would be "justified"?

I think it depends where ones sympathies lay.

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Re:Assassination Is a Leaky Abstraction by smitty1e on Friday December 06, 2024 @09:16PM (#42346710)
Assassination assumes some premeditation.

I can at least grasp killing in some sort of immediate self-defense situation.

However, assassination seems a slippery slope to some anarchy that is unlikely to please anyone this side of Hell.

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