There exists a head of state that calls for innocent people to be killed. He hasn't killed anyone, and is therefore innocent himself. You call for his killing for the crime of calling for innocent people to be killed. Either you also ought be killed, or the head of state's grandstanding's no worse than yours.
Perhaps my skewed view of the world is down to recognizing that drug addiction isn't some immutable trait people are necessarily born with. There is a mote of free will, a whit of personal choice, that accompanies the fact of addiction. Even if we abandon the notion of personal responsibility entirely, and accept it as a transmissible disease somehow, and that we cannot judge those that succumb to it for whatever reason, the moment one decides to addict someone else, that excuse is gone.
There're limits to the head of state's guilt and the drug addicts' innocence. In any case, maybe the judgment they'll face isn't for us to decide. Maybe they'll get their due in time.
There exists a head of state that calls for innocent people to be killed. He hasn't killed anyone, and is therefore innocent himself. You call for his killing for the crime of calling for innocent people to be killed. Either you also ought be killed, or the head of state's grandstanding's no worse than yours.
Perhaps my skewed view of the world is down to recognizing that drug addiction isn't some immutable trait people are necessarily born with. There is a mote of free will, a whit of personal choice, that accompanies the fact of addiction. Even if we abandon the notion of personal responsibility entirely, and accept it as a transmissible disease somehow, and that we cannot judge those that succumb to it for whatever reason, the moment one decides to addict someone else, that excuse is gone.
There're limits to the head of state's guilt and the drug addicts' innocence. In any case, maybe the judgment they'll face isn't for us to decide. Maybe they'll get their due in time.