1 month ban cause... biblical saying?

[Andres]

For consideration / making the life of the mods a little bit more complicated:

I am not opposed to the death penalty, nor am I a pacifist. I often do wish people who wantonly kill others receive a taste of their own.



However:

Presuming one accepts a 'mainstream / western' view of the war in Afghanistan, then there is no reason to assume that MRD is going to wantonly kill people. MRD is a respected forum member, not known for a spiteful, hateful character. One does not need to pre-emptively deplore him not to go about wantonly killing people.


If one does not accept a 'mainstream / western' view of the war in Afghanistan, then the issue at hand becomes altogether more complicated.
Suppose the following hypothetical examples:
A well-respected British, and a well respected Argentinean member of this board both go off to war over the Falklands. How does one bid them farewell?
When an Israeli member goes off to a war bombing Gaza?
A Palestinian member goes off to 'assymetrical' warfare?
A Pakistani jihadist announces he is off to the war in Afghanistan?

In this last example, how many members here would bid him goodbye with the words 'if you kill somebody, I hope the same fate befalls upon you'? Would they all get banned fotr a month? Would it be .org policy that the replies of other patrons are limited to wishing him good luck and a safe return?

I think it should be pointed out that the reason for the ban is, as The Wizard said:

I think it's pretty obvious that in the Backroom, you don't wish for another poster's death.

You don't wish for the death of a fellow .Org member.

MRD just said: "hey guys, I'm going off to Afghanistan." He didn't make a political statement by that. He's a regular BR'er, he knows we care about him and he says bye. Some people wished him luck and hoped for his safe return.

In the BR, you can open a thread about how unjust the war in Afghanistan is, you can open a thread to explain your pacifist viewpoints, to attack the foreign US politics and what not.

But you cannot, under no circumstances, wish for the death of a fellow .Org member.