Hello, 2005 called. Maybe you didn't hear it ring.

The poster's intent was pretty obvious. You just like taking cheap shots.

Humans are vicious, predatory animals. They are renowned for subjecting other beings to death and pain.

Proof that not all AC posts are without merit.

Are you also a Buddhist, by any chance?

So it's all about the money, eh? Some might remark on the quintessential American-ness of that.

Not disowned. Abandoned. They buggered off back to Dagestan a couple of years before this happened, leaving all their kids behind. From there, it's been quite easy for them to issue denials and calls to avenge the deaths of their sons.

If he'd been shot by a cop in the act of planting the bomb, that might qualify for self-defence.

"Punishment" is simply another word for "revenge".

Perhaps the fact that 18+32=50 escaped you, or you'd rather make a big deal out of a typo because you don't actually have a response.

Vox populi, vox Dei.

Makes you wonder about the people.

Can you bring the dead back to life? Then do not be so eager to deal out death to the living.

I would have thought you of all people would exhibit reasonableness and compassion for those whose inner conflicts drive them to extremes.

Because two wrongs do not make a right.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." --attributed to M. Gandhi.

Robert Blecker describes himself as an "emotive retributivist". I think that speaks volumes.