I'm not. I asserted that the moral of "assassination/murder is wrong and should be punished" aligns with the cynical behavior of "don't let murders and assassins run amok because it causes problems (more murders/assassinations) that don't need to exist". Morals are fungible and change or are dropped to suit the group of people that hold them. The absolute morality of which you speak is a lie that said groups of people agree on because it is necessary for social cohesion.
That being said, I agree with the moral in this case because I don't want to be randomly killed by some nut case nor do I want one or more of my loved ones to be randomly killed by some nut case. This is cynical self interest. Is it hypocrisy? Yes. Do I care? No. Most people behave like this. You should look into getting that sand removed from your vagina.
The problem here is that if you're going to state openly that it's a matter of whether or not you agree with it then don't bother bringing morality into it at all, it comes off as obscurantist horseshit.
And in this specific section you and your loved ones aren't at threat at being killed by some nut case at random as a result of this unless you're actually arguing that 'two hyper-specifically contextual murders not being treated in the extreme = all murder will be normalized' in which case you're a mental midget too short for this entire avenue of discussion.
Anyone can appeal to anything they want. Whether others buy it or not is a different story. You don't buy it? Fine. Others might though.
Exactly what my point is, your entire argument hinges on this illogical notion that two heeb diplomats getting shot somehow will radiate into people killing each other over parking squabbles via clown logic and Schrodinger's emotional appeal to a self-described cynical subjective standard of morality.
We are arguing two different points here. You are saying you don't care about political assassination of some random employees of the Israeli government, and that's your right. I am asserting there's two layers to this happening, and this is why I care about random Israeli government employees being killed on American soil. Emphasis on killed on American soil. If this happened in Germany, I wouldn't give a single fuck, but because I am an American, this incident has become my problem because it happened in my country and was perpetrated by my countryman.
It didn't happen in 'your country' and wasn't perpetrated by 'your countryman'. You fucking faggot. This is my point, it is not 'my problem' because I am an American citizen any more than it is logically my problem that some tourist gets kidnapped in Juarez because they thought going outside of the local established tourist zones to 'experience authentic local color' was a good idea. It doesn't suddenly mean I need to be afraid for my life of being kidnapped in Juarez.
1. Murder in the general sense - No sane human being wants to live in a place where that allows people to commit wanton murder because they are angry
This wasn't a 'wanton murder because they were angry' you retard. This is the very definition of a targeted, specific crime.
.Like all crimes. this is impossible to stop entirely, but if this behavior is not punished, it becomes much, much more common. For example, look to New York and California refusing to prosecute petty theft. What did they get? A fuckload of petty theft, organized petty theft rings, open air markets selling stolen goods, having Walgreens treat random citizens who want to buy a fucking stick of deodorant like a thief and general economic downturn. The same concept applies for random murders. Because I don't want to be murdered if I irritate some random douchebag, and because I don't want to be randomly murdered by some nut job because I went to the wrong museum, it is in my objective interest that homicide (excepting cases of self defense or defense of others) be prosecuted severely. Because pretty much every sane person both logically and sentimentally agree, it becomes a moral.
This entire spastic line of reasoning is based on a non sequitur. Two people in demographic cohorts entirely unlike you in every comprehensible manner being targeted does not suddenly make you a target.
2. Political assassination specifically - I'm no fan of Israel, as I stated before, but this is an international incident and it will cause international problems.
Cool, good thing I don't plan on traveling internationally like the vast majority of Americans, then.
It is for the best, both morally
Shut the fuck up with the moral appeal if you yourself do not care for morals as anything other than subjective standards to be picked up and discarded as is necessary for cynical personal purposes.
and cynically, that Americans not let this slide because the next happening might piss off someone who will decide to retaliate.
And cynically, most Americans - the vast majority myself included -
do not belong in any group that would be targeted in such a retaliation and as such this is not their problem nor mine. Period.
There is no 'we' retard.
properly deal with the assassin, it might prevent another incident. For example, next time it might be some deranged Ukraineaboo killing a Russian dignitary next time and the Russians elect to impose consequences in the form of a massive cyber warfare attack. Americans will be directly harmed as a result and that is objectively bad for Americans, and therefore also morally bad for Americans.
In your extreme and hopefully hyperbolic, insane and illogical example you're leaving out that the targets of such a cyber warfare attack are likely to be:
A: Politically important targets such as cities (blue hellholes I don't give a shit about)
and
B: Individually politically important targets such as military infrastructure (that I don't give a shit about because I am not in the military), three-letter agency infrastructure (fuck the feds), and the political class/government worker class who can also feel free to all go jump in a lake wearing a backpack full of horseshoes.
Your entire framework crumbles because it hinges on the necessity of me accepting your batshit-insane premise that I'm somehow going to be personally targeted in any of this, which is just again nonsensical. I like most of John Q Public in America am not:
A government worker
A diplomat
An international tourist
A member of the military (government worker but whatever)
A bughive dweller
So I really have nothing
but upsides in your hypothetical. The other aspect of your argument that is equally important as it is deranged is this notion that somehow a hyper-specific politically motivated attack will lead to people shooting each other at Wal-Mart which not only already happens but is fucking preposterous when it's the very definition of a niche case.
This is all a not-so-cryptic form of emotional manipulation ('we-ism') to try to rope myself and others into caring about an incident that categorically across all domains is not of my concern whatsoever as to its resolution and I actively have no interest in agitating for any kind of action on, individually or as part of some nebulous group that is observed to not exist in the first place. This 'we as Americans' shit died a decade ago and is now recognizable to the public as the completely transparent bandwagoning tactic that it always was.
It in fact, is NOT in my interest to see this retard get punished any more than anyone else. If anything him NOT getting punished would be a boon as it would lead to less trips from Israeli diplomats to the U.S.
