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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Is air piracy ALWAYS inexcusably evil?
Message-ID: <9311@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 14:33:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 14:33:19 1985
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Reply-To: wmartin@brl-bmd.ARPA (Will Martin <wmartin>)
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Given the situation as it has been structured, the person involved has
no other honorable choice than to kill himself, preferably publically,
as an act to shame the government that denied asylum. He has no right to
endanger or involve others, though I would not blame him for managing to
kill or harm members of the security forces of either of the countries 
involved in the process of his suicide; this would be considered revenge
or retribution for the way he had been treated. Whether he chose to exact
such revenge would be up to his personal moral code; it is probably more
effective to harm only yourself in such a situation, and become a martyr
(such as the Buddhist monks who protested in Vietnam by self-immolation).