Opinion of Qaddafi's Death

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Horrible death on principle, but freedom death purely relative to most other deaths.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I can certainly understand the feeling that no death is a Freedom Death, but I don't see how anybody can see this as a Horrible Death.  (unless you're a horrible person to begin with)

Horrible death is the only option because, as you said, no death is a Freedom death and we operate with a dichotomy in these polls, but this death is most certainly less Horrible than other deaths.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I think my reaction is fairly defensible, I can't really see the problem with it. Maybe there'd be a contradiction if I was dogmatically anti-violence (, which would be more of a liberal position to hold anyway). But I'm no such thing, and I don't disapprove of legitimate violence against an enemy of his own people. Also, I don't really see how it would be possible to think that an action was okay to be performed by Lybians, yet not okay to be approved of by those who sympathize with them in the West. That seems almost paternalistic, as far as I can see.

Hell, I am dogmatically anti-violence and this is one of those situations where even I really don't feel that it's fair to judge the perpetrators of the violence considering the circumstances.