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Originally posted by Seb From Holland
Because killing politicians jeopardizes the democracy. They could have set an example, but they didn't.
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Killing people in general jeopardizes the state we live in as well.
In both cases, if "everyone did it", or even if "it became common", the state would fall, democracy could not exist, and we could not have any type of order.
Besides that, someone that kills a politician out of ideals is, however wrong he may be, doing something he himself considers as good. Some asshole that just beats a guy to death in the street doesn't even have that excuse.
If Hitler came to power, and you had a chance to kill him before that happening, would you do it? Now, if someone you considered just as bad would come to power, would you still do it?
That's what Volkert van der G. seems to have thought. He was wrong in what he did and thought, and should indeed be punished, but at least he had a reason.