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The point in the first paragraph regarding 'scope creep' is a non sequitur because Julian Assange was in fact not assassinated and public figures calling for his assassination were not taken seriously.

The second paragraph and points a and c are non sequiturs.

In b it seems you are in favor of a lynch mob.

Just explaining why I down-modded your comment



down modding stuff is fine, giving reasoned comments is fantastic.

lynch mob - no, but I was struck with concern and amusement by the idea of a quarterly referendum on which world figures we should target for assassination, plus maybe a limit of civilian children whose collateral death would be acceptable in the voting list. In fact its the opposite of a lynch mob. A lynch democracy perhaps.

don't quite understand the non-sequiteur part... could you expand?




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