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Dangerous precedent no matter what the technology. If every country starts to selectively kill people in other countries perceived to be hostile where do we sto

Dangerous precedent no matter what the technology. If every country starts to selectively kill people in other countries perceived to be hostile where do we stop or draw the line? Do it just because you can? If China or Russia did it in other countries sure as hell the US or Israel would be "up in arms" about it. And draw the line where? Someone is employed by agency that develops new technology that could be harmful....let's kill her/him? Or just because s/he said something critical on TV? Back to the stone age everyone - with high tech of course.

NoOneNew 6y ago
Precedent? Hi, welcome to planet Earth. We humans are literally the most dangerous organism on this planet. After we perfected murdering other animals with spears and arrows, we took to killing each other. That got boring so we started boring into mountains to kill them too. That's when we then learned about explosives, oh buddy did we start killing big ass mountains too, disappearing them from the landscape for coal. That got boring so we started murdering microscopic creatures. All while we still kill each because they wear a different flag, said something we dont like or are the last pizza slice. We've been assassinating for thousands of years. Theres no precedence. This event will be forgotten in a week and probably will never be in a history book due to how mundane the killing was. The term assassin is old as hell for a reason.
lm28469 6y ago
> If every country starts to selectively kill people in other countries > If China or Russia If? It's been happening forever https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinatio... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Russian_assassinations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Russian_a... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Kill_First https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Kill_First Just in very recent history, and we only know about them because they were high profile: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yuli... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Solei... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...

NoOneNew 6y ago

Precedent? Hi, welcome to planet Earth. We humans are literally the most dangerous organism on this planet. After we perfected murdering other animals with spears and arrows, we took to killing each other. That got boring so we started boring into mountains to kill them too. That's when we then learned about explosives, oh buddy did we start killing big ass mountains too, disappearing them from the landscape for coal. That got boring so we started murdering microscopic creatures. All while we still kill each because they wear a different flag, said something we dont like or are the last pizza slice. We've been assassinating for thousands of years. Theres no precedence. This event will be forgotten in a week and probably will never be in a history book due to how mundane the killing was. The term assassin is old as hell for a reason.

lm28469 6y ago

> If every country starts to selectively kill people in other countries > If China or Russia If? It's been happening forever https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinatio... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Russian_assassinations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Russian_a... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Kill_First https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Kill_First Just in very recent history, and we only know about them because they were high profile: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yuli... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Solei... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...