Reply #83: people called MLKjr weak- and Gandhi as well, but

[Bluerthanblue]

they were instrumental in bringing about positive change in the governments they struggled against.

You can't deter people who are committed to a cause with threats of punishment. I don't endorse terrorism in any way shape or form, but thinking you can stop it by punishing anyone left behind- is foolishness.

The guy is dying. The people who welcome him home believe him to be innocent. There are those who lost family in the incident who also doubt his involvment. No one can go back to before the explosion and alter any of the results. Scotland DID have the choice to alter the fact that this man was destined to die alone in a foreign country apart from his family (who are victims regardless of his guilt or innocence). They chose the path of mercy. If only more people would make that choice. And the only way we really lead is by example. Force, or the threat of punishment, hasn't worked very well to stop this madness seems to haunt humanity.

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